Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council formalises Rights of Rivers declaration

Conservation experts are urging people to keep out of the River Itchen to protect the eggs of endangered Atlantic salmon, which are currently buried in fragile gravel nests known as redds.

Momentum for stronger protection of Hampshire’s rivers continues to grow, as East Hampshire District Council has unanimously passed a motion recognising the Rights of Rivers - the latest local…

Momentum continues to build for the protection of Hampshire’s rivers as Southampton City Council and Test Valley Borough Council become the latest to pass Rights of River motions.

Local residents joined Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for a Rights of the River Forum in Winchester

More than 10 MPs gathered in Parliament Square on Wednesday (4th June) to call on the Government to strengthen planning reforms to protect England’s globally rare chalk streams.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust welcomes Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council’s momentous decision, at Full Council on Thursday 15 May, to grant ‘personhood’ rights to local rivers…

The clock is ticking for the Atlantic salmon of the River Itchen.

215 local councillors demand urgent action to protect globally rare chalk streams

A group of UK nature charities have written to Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP and Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP calling for action to protect the UK’s chalk streams in planning reforms.