Water win! Creature Comforts-style animation about natural flood management takes home national film award

Pete the Frog who was voiced by our very own Catchment Partnership Officer John Gorst from United Utilities What was the award and who won? Four lovingly crafted stop-motion animations, produced last year by the Environment Agency, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and animators StudioDOK, have bagged a prestigious national award in the Educational Film category of the Learning …

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Fell ponies Drybarrows Governor (Gus) left and Drybarrows Dante (Dan)

New Cumbrian ‘neigh’bours join our team at Haweswater

A small herd of four new Fell ponies have joined our team here at Haweswater, as part of our conservation grazing and regenerative farming operation here in the Eastern Lake District. The four ponies named Gus, Tommy, Dan and Stanley have been purchased from nearby, well-known Cumbrian fell pony breeders – Drybarrows Fell Ponies and …

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Bird's-eye view of Swindale Valley with a re-wiggled Swindale Beck flowing through the middle

Cumbrian rivers project scoops prestigious European Riverprize

We’re incredibly proud to be part of an ambitious programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District, that has just beaten immense competition from across Europe to win the prestigious European Riverprize. The work headed up by the Environment Agency and Natural England has involved several partners around the county including us here …

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Swindale Valley has won a 2022 UK River Prize award!

We’re delighted that our partnership project to restore habitats in Swindale Valley here at Haweswater has won the 2022 UK River Prize Project-scale Award. The Swindale Valley Restoration Project involved a partnership between us at the RSPB, landowner United Utilities, the Environment Agency and Natural England. We’ve been working together to restore watercourses, bogs, meadows …

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The future of beavers in England

Could wild beavers soon return to England’s waters? A landmark consultation has been launched to set the course for the future of beavers in England. Read on to find out out how you can contribute.

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