Freshwater fish and their habitats are among the most threatened of all species and ecosystems, vulnerable on many fronts, from pollution, water abstraction and damming, to invasive non-native species and climate change.
The Company supports catchment-scale solutions to the widespread challenges facing the UK’s freshwater ecosystems. The Company supports a range of catchment-scale ecological restoration projects across the UK, restoring riparian woodland to create vital habitat for biodiversity gain, whilst helping to shelter our rivers from the impacts of rising temperatures, pollution and flooding. Cold, clean water is essential for the health of one of our most iconic species, the wild Atlantic salmon.
We work closely with the Atlantic Salmon Trust, lead partner of ‘The Missing Salmon Alliance’, a major UK collaborative project to find solutions to the significant problems facing the UK’s Atlantic salmon populations, using a coordinated, evidence-based approach which is part funded by the Company’s fisheries trust, working to identify the key drivers behind the global decline in salmon populations and building the required international collaboration to conserve the “king of the fish”.
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