White-clawed crayfish
The White-clawed crayfish is a freshwater, bronze-coloured crustacean with pale undersides to its claws - hence the name. It is under threat from an invasive and introduced species of crayfish.…
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Rivers
From otters to freshwater shrimps, all animals are dependant on an abundant and reliable supply of clean water. Rivers sustain the natural environment, wildlife and people in equal measure.
Rivers challenges
What are the pressures on our rivers and catchments?
Shropshire's Rivers
Our Land and Water Team are working on a wide variety of projects within Shropshire. These projects include managing and improving the health of our streams, rivers, ponds and canals, working with different partners to address flooding issues across the county and work with landowners to help regenerate farmland.
We work hard to access funding sources to enable key projects and habitat improvement works on all kinds of water bodies, from full landscape/catchment-scale to more localised target sites, helping mitigate climate change, protect everyone's future and create a River Recovery Network in Shropshire.
Find out about some of these projects below:
We work hard to access funding sources to enable key projects and habitat improvement works on all kinds of water bodies, from full landscape/catchment-scale to more localised target sites, helping mitigate climate change, protect everyone's future and create a River Recovery Network in Shropshire.
Find out about some of these projects below:
Chalk rivers
Cool, crystal-clear waters flow over gravelly beds, streaming through white-flowered water-crowfoot and watercress in serene lowland landscapes.
Spiny lobster
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
Restoring rivers one bank at a time
Restoring rivers is proving to be a good thing for wildlife and the people who manage the land surrounding them. Deputy Land and Water Team Manager, Luke Neal, writes about one of this year's…
All rivers flow to the sea
Over the last two weeks we have been celebrating National Marine Week, highlighting the wonderful wildlife found in UK seas. However, populations of marine wildlife have been shown to have…
River Reflector February 2019
The White clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is the UK’s only native species of crayfish and is one of our largest freshwater invertebrates. It is currently facing a number of threats…
Where have all our wild rivers gone?
The decline of natural river systems
River Reflector April 2019
Whatever the weather, healthy rivers are always bursting with wildlife. Take a look at why rivers are important and what amazing wildlife can be spotted in and around them by reading this months…
River lamprey
The river lamprey is a primitive, jawless fish, with a round, sucker-mouth which it uses to attach to other fish to feed from them. Adults live in the sea and return to freshwater to spawn.