Natural Course

On 16 January, 2018, the Greater Manchester Low Carbon Hub’s Natural Capital Group (NCG) hosted their annual conference at the Manchester Museum. This event brought together over 70 practitioners and citizens from across Greater Manchester. The day was spent discussing the many benefits found by connecting people with nature and…

West Cumbria Rivers Trust are thrilled to announce that their project to remove Ennerdale Mill Weir in Egremont has won a top conservation award from the Wild Trout Trust. The project on the River Ehen in West Cumbria, won the Large Scale Habitat Enhancement Scheme Award at the annual Wild…

A forum, organised by the Catchment Data User Group (CDUG), took place on the 27th September 2018, to grow the capacity of the Catchment Partnerships and to ensure that the catchment management work is underpinned by robust data and evidence. A wide range of representatives from local CaBA partnerships and…

Mersey Rivers Trust is working in Wigan to help restore the river environment, which was once altered or destroyed by industry. The project is known as Hey Brook Revival and will form one of the Carbon Landscape Projects – a series of individual projects, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund,…

This summer, South Cumbria Rivers Trust (SCRT) trained 4 volunteers, 4 National Trust volunteers and staff and 2 members of SCRT staff to take part in series of trial butterfly and moth surveys, to help monitor the impact of buffer strips around rivers in the Coniston and Crake catchment. If…

On Wednesday 3rd October 2018, the Environment Agency and its partners hosted a workshop aimed at starting a process of “Bringing Life to the River Irk”. Over 30 representatives of stakeholder organisations came together in central Manchester to work together and start the development of a long-term, 10-year, vision for…

The Irwell Catchment Partnership has developed a catchment ‘story map’ to help partners interrogate evidence and turn it into action on the ground. The story map, along with the partnership’s vision and terms of reference, will serve as the overall Catchment Management Plan, driving evidence-based delivery to further improve the…

Work starts today (6 July) to remove Ennerdale Mill Dam Weir on the River Ehen at Egremont after evidence found it is failing. Removal will allow upstream and downstream migration of fish, including Atlantic salmon, for the first time in more than 250 years. Once up and running, the weir…

Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Natural Course have commissioned eftec and partners Environmental Finance and Countryscape to develop the first Natural Capital Investment Plan for the city region. The plan will promote investment and delivery of opportunities that protect and enhance Greater Manchester’s natural capital to support a healthy population…

Between November 2017 and March 2018 over 16,000 trees were planted across the Ribble Catchment to help improve water quality, as part of the European Life Integrated Project, Natural Course. This has been thanks to the time and effort of volunteers at Ribble Rivers Trust who have in total put in…