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…

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