He makes a good point Feargal Sharkey Lucie Heath Owen Sennitt

Did you know that once again plans are afoot to strip almost all of the #GaywoodRiver's habitat from banks and stream bed, doing more damage to this river of #chalkstream ecology at significant expense to the council tax payer? youtube.com/watch?v=gXF_Z3… BBC East Owen Sennitt

Good to see Eleanor Storey covering this important story and glad to see 'alternative' options being explored. Never should have been on the table... Stop the Wensum Link 🍃💚🍃.

While it may look pretty, Himalayan balsam is a invasive plant damaging the UKs rivers. It can grow 7m high, produce up to 800 seeds per plant and shoot them up to 7m away. A 🧵about this invasive species 👇

Fossils found miles below the centre of Greenland suggest that its ice sheet is more vulnerable to climate change than thought, spelling bad news for coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels. New paper in PNAS

❌ Finally… ❌ Some proper fines being dished out to our failing water companies Almost 60% of ⁦Thames Water 💧⁩ & 45% of ⁦Yorkshire Water 💧⁩ sewage works failing ❌ How could they have been allowed to get away with such lawbreaking for so long❓ theguardian.com/business/artic…

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It's a #chalkstream, NOT A DRAIN. Gaywood River Revival calls for the King's Lynn Internal Drainage Board (#KLIDB) to rethink its approach to maintaining the Gaywood River: edp24.co.uk/news/24508287.… Feargal Sharkey James Wallace Joe Crowley Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis 🍃💚🍃 James Wild MP Adam Vaughan

Untouched the Gaywood River displays everything you’d expect to see in a rare Chalk Stream🧐in-stream plants pinch the channel increasing flow rate which dislodges silt The_WMA 🙏safeguard the Chalk Stream ecology &🙏reduce the destructive maintenance regime Gaywood River Revival

Dave Throup The_WMA Gaywood River Revival Floods every year but new landowners determined to grow crops🙄previous landowners allowed it to flood every year & in the winter lakes were a wildlife haven🙂looked lovely this year when it flooded & originally the Gaywood River floodplain

"ill-informed social media posts that had been made by self-appointed experts that knew little about the way the catchment works". Who on earth I wonder could John Askew be talking about?

The Gaywood River “Norfolk’s forgotten Chalk stream” warm weather + reduced flow usually results in death of the🐟Who granted a permit to abstract water during summer EnvAgencyAnglia ? 🙏The_WMA for reducing your maintenance & leaving more🌱given time the river will recover

“This has gone on for far too long and, as everyone knows, rivers are the bloodline and life of the land … we have a moral and civic obligation as a nation to protect and sort this horrific issue out. Our rivers are life.” - Bear Grylls OBE Thank you, Bear! 🙌 #MarchForWater 🧵..

Water is life. Yet in the UK, every river is polluted with toxic cocktails of raw 💩, agricultural runoff and chemical pollutants. ☠️ But it’s not over. Britain’s waters have life in them yet, as long as we act now. JOIN US. Sat 26 Oct, 📍London. 👉 marchforcleanwater.org

You would never believe this was a river of chalk stream ecology if you saw these videos of the recent pollution incidents which have taken place. And the culprits? Seemingly untouchable.

The Gaywood River holds precious memories for Peter Clitheroe, but it’s in trouble. His film shines a light on the urgent need for restoration. @peterthurlow reports #SaveTheGaywood #WaterwayRevival #BigRiverWatch The Rivers Trust eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/ga…

With all the attention on our #rivers, lakes and sea you’d expect things to be improving on the #gaywoodriver. Not a bit of it. Another disturbing aspect to this river’s mistreatment emerges in new film: “Draining the Gaywood” at: gaywoodriverrevival.org Feargal Sharkey