She’s an Olympic champion boasting a gold medal from Paris 2024, she’s a sustainability guru striving to make her sport and her community greener, she’s a passionate advocate for cleaner waterways, she’s a junior doctor with the NHS, and she’s a Rivers Trust Ambassador. Is there nothing Imogen Grant can’t do? This week, Emma and Matthew chat with Imogen about how her sport has turned her into a river health champion, and how she wants to see the rowing community step up and play a part in river restorations. Plus, find out how she deals with accidentally hitting geese while rowing.
Find out more and get involved:
Find your local Rivers Trust
Visit www.theriverstrust.org for more
Hear more from Imogen on her Instagram @ImogenDaisyG
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To start this series of Rambling about Rivers, we’re tackling river habitat decline: what’s driving it, how it’s impacting our rivers, and most importantly, what’s being done to reverse the damage. From degraded peatlands and invasive species to the straightening and deepening of river channels, we explore the historic and ongoing pressures on our waterways.
You’ll hear from:
Freya Connolly of the Buffer+ project in Ireland, who’s championing innovative paludiculture farming on revitalised peatland.
Pete King from Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust, who explains how “re-wiggling” a chalk stream created thriving wetland habitat and reconnected the local community to their river.
Matt Duffy from Don Catchment Rivers Trust, who shares the incredible story of how salmon returned to Sheffield’s River Don for the first time in over 150 years, thanks to decades of barrier removal and river restoration.
Find out more and get involved:
Don Catchment Rivers Trust’s Wilder Salmon Pastures
Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust’s Cockshut Restoration Project
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You’ve probably heard a lot about rivers in the past few years. In the new podcast series from The Rivers Trust, we’re laying bare the state of rivers in the UK and Ireland, getting up close and personal with some of the issues that they face, and discussing what needs to be done to bring rivers back to life. The first episode lands on Thursday.
Join Emma and Matthew every fortnight to journey through catchments – from the headwaters to the sea – joined by experts, friends, and colleagues from across The Rivers Trust Movement fighting for wild, healthy and natural rivers. Find out more about The Rivers Trust: www.theriverstrust.org
Get in touch: info@theriverstrust.org
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