Save The Wye Coalition
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#SaveTheWye campaigns for a better future for our river. It is made up of local groups from across the catchment fighting to save the Wye. https://linktr.ee/savethewye
2/2. So who is Big Chicken? How did we get here? And why are our rivers paying the price? We've broken it all down in our latest blog. 👇👇 #BigChicken #RescueOurRivers riveractionuk.com/news/factory...
Factory Farming UK: How Big Chicken Is Polluting Rivers
Discover how factory farming and intensive poultry production are polluting UK rivers, driving nutrient pollution and threatening wildlife across the country.
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🚨 Meet Big Chicken - a powerful industrial system producing more than 1 BILLION chickens in the UK every year. Together, those birds generate an estimated 3.5M tonnes of 💩 a year – and often our rivers are left to deal with the consequences.. 1/2. riveractionuk.com/news/factory...
Factory Farming UK: How Big Chicken Is Polluting Rivers
Discover how factory farming and intensive poultry production are polluting UK rivers, driving nutrient pollution and threatening wildlife across the country.
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Out today on Netflix: Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy. Mo Gilligan spends 28 days eating fried chicken while uncovering the hidden costs of the global chicken industry - from our diets to its impact on people and our environment. #BigChicken #savethewye #RescueOurRivers
🚨 RIVER ACTION INVESTIGATION: The hidden water scandal behind Britain's hosepipe bans. Millions of households are being told to use less water. But our investigation reveals a much bigger story... 🔽 🔽 #WaterCrisis riveractionuk.com/news/hosepip...
Millions face hosepipe bans while businesses hold licences to abstract 43 trillion litres as water demand grows - River Action UK
Why asking households to use less water won’t solve the crisis Millions of households across England and Wales are being told not to water gardens, wash cars or fill paddling pools with hosepipes, whi...
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Her deputy, Angela Eagle, sought to implement these devastating policies, telling lobbyists for the chicken companies she would seek to relax the planning rules. Angela Eagle is the new Environment Secretary. Burnham needs to tell her this nonsense must stop. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units
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The outgoing Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds, exemplified the problem. She spent her final weeks in office ripping down controls on industrial chicken farming, which destroys our rivers. She did so at the behest of corporate lobbyists. Her job before joining the government? Corporate lobbyist.
This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Add your voice to the call for evidence on freshwater quality in Wales. Consultation: does the law successfully protect the freshwater environment in Wales? Please submit your comments by 27 July 2026 by emailing IEPAW@gov.wales Notes and guidance here: savethewye.org/2026/07/20/a...
Add your voice to the call for evidence on freshwater quality in Wales - Save the Wye
Send your submission to: IEPAW@gov.wales by midnight on Monday 27th July 2026. The main purpose of this open call is to give the opportunity to provide evidence on agricultural pollution in Wales. Thi...
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Poultry sector growth plan risks UK national security, campaigners warn.“Intensive poultry farming is highly resource-intensive, polluting and inefficient, so it can never be a solution to food security,” Ruth Westcott @sustainweb.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Poultry sector growth plan risks UK national security, campaigners warn
Government’s food security push is said to rely on animal feed imports with vulnerability to supply chain shocks
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looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director
A short film about our bacterial testing at The Warren, Hay-on-Wye with equipment provided by @riveractionuk.bsky.social Our first test 25/06/26 recorded a worryingly high level of E.Coli. over 3x the safe bathing limit. We publish our results each week on our website. @savethewye.bsky.social
Good to see that the new Farming Roadmap clearly acknowledges that "agriculture has a major impact on the environment, including being the largest contributor to water pollution". And we fully support @riveractionuk.bsky.social's statement🧵 riveractionuk.com/news/the-gov...
Government Publishes Its Vision for Farming - River Action UK
On 20th June, the Government published its much anticipated Farming Roadmap setting out its vision for the sectors journey towards 2050. River Action welcomes the Government’s recognition that restori...
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⚠️ Water quality alert at The Warren, Hay-on-Wye ⚠️ Our 25 June test found 3,088 E.coli CFU - over 3x the safe bathing threshold of 990 CFU. We'll test every Thursday and publish results to help people make informed decisions about swimming. Results: friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/wye-bathing-...
The Rivers Wye & Usk once bloomed with water crowfoot (ranunculus). Today, much of it has gone. We're delighted to be working with Save the River Usk on a new Nature Networks Fund project to investigate its decline, understand what's been lost, and help this vital river habitat recover.
“Source apportionment of nutrients, Natural Resources Wales’s Water Framework Directive assessments and the regulator’s marine SAC assessments have all showed that agricultural impacts to rivers are a major cause of water quality failure”. @afonyddcymru.bsky.social mailchi.mp/c8d04bbc03ff...
For Healthy Welsh Rivers, We Must Face Up To Impacts From All Sectors
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Diolch o galon Charlotte nation.cymru/news/charlot... #Wales #Nature #Rewilding
Charlotte Church urges public to back Wales nature recovery efforts amid biodiversity warning
Amelia Jones Charlotte Church is urging people to support nature recovery efforts in Wales, warning that the country’s wildlife and natural habitats are under significant pressure despite its reputat...
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Latest news from the campaign to save the Wye. Rights of Nature, record temperatures and how to get involved, all on World Environment Day: mailchi.mp/e4cff23b8b0c... @savethewye.bsky.social
🌍 World Environment Day 2026 We cannot have a healthy planet without healthy rivers. If we want thriving wildlife, climate resilience and healthy communities, we must restore and protect the rivers that sustain them... 1/2. 🧵
What’s in our air & why it matters My new blog Intensive farming makes air pollution far worse When large numbers of animals are concentrated in 1 place, vast quantities of waste are produced in a small area, leading to high local emissions of ammonia @ciwf.org.uk philiplymbery.com/the-silent-p...
THE SILENT POLLUTION HANGING OVER OUR COUNTRYSIDE
CEO CIWF
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Honoured to take part in the launch of the River Wye charter, a landmark recognition of the rights of our beloved river and the urgent need to do everything possible to protect and restore the Wye catchment💚
Friends of the River Wye@friendsriverwye.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe River Wye has become the first river in the UK to claim cross-border rights from source to sea - a landmark declaration that rivers are not drains for pollution, but living ecosystems worthy of protection, respect, and a legal voice. @riveractionuk.bsky.social @savethewye.bsky.social
The River Wye has become the first river in the UK to claim cross-border rights from source to sea - a landmark declaration that rivers are not drains for pollution, but living ecosystems worthy of protection, respect, and a legal voice. @riveractionuk.bsky.social @savethewye.bsky.social
Today councillors from counties in Wales and England as well as a representative from Bannau Brycheiniog National Park signed the Charter for the Rights of the River Wye at a ceremony in Hay. The Charter unites decision-makers under a shared purpose of protecting the River for future generations
Beautiful and informative interview on BBC Today with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and Dr Louise Bodnar, Voice of the River Wye, ahead of the Rights of the River Wye charter launch tomorrow in Hay on Wye. Listen from 13.40 minutes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Today, 23/05/2026
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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A message that is just as relevant today as it was when first aired six years ago. Biodiversity loss isn’t happening somewhere else. It’s happening right here, in Britain’s rivers. But nature can recover. We just need to give it the chance. Take action for your local river: www.riveractionuk.com
Environment Agency inaction is a huge scandal. On the Wye and many other rivers agricultural pollution is the most significant factor in worsening water quality. When will the EA enforce the law and protect our rivers? @riveractionuk.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @savethewye.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to Alison Caffyn, who was invited to this year’s Royal Garden Party in recognition of her tireless work exposing pollution in the River Wye - and championing cleaner, healthier rivers across the UK. 🌿💧 Thank you, Alison. This recognition is so richly deserved. 👏
Where do citizen scientists come from? Not from under rocks or the roots of river grasses. They’re trained. Here’s an image from the Dulas Brook this morning. Friends of the River Wye are delighted to be extending our volunteer-led data collection into freshwater biological monitoring.
“People are no longer prepared to accept the decline of their rivers is inevitable” In our latest blog, we explore the landmark High Court case brought by thousands of residents over river pollution 👇 https://riveractionuk.com/news/rivers-in-decline-communities-take-their-fight-to-the-high-court/
Rivers in decline, communities take their fight to the High Court - River Action UK
By Emma Dearnaley, Head of Legal, River Action It has come to this. More than 4,500 people, angry, frustrated and exhausted, have turned to the courts because they believe their rivers have been polluted and those allegedly responsible have not been held to account. On Monday last week, the High Cou...
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On Weds 13th May there’s a free community screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing at The Globe at Hay. We’ll be there and speaking afterwards about the local actions we’re taking. Join us! Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 8pm. Reserve your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/haypu...
Register here – Film Screening & Discussion: People's Emergency Briefing – The Globe at Hay
Film Screening & Discussion: People's Emergency Briefing – The Globe at Hay, Wed 13 May 2026 - 📢 A special community screening: The People’s Emergency Briefing #PEBuk What’s happening with climate an...
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