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Our intrepid volunteers on the Og carrying out balsam bashing. If you've got this plant in your garden, particularly if you are close to a river please do pull it up, break it up and leaving it away from the river to rot down before it gets to developing seed pods. #balsambash

Today water vole surveying Kennet feeder streams in Ramsbury. Our trained volunteers will surveying a number of sites in the Kennet and Pang catchments over the coming months, helping us see how well 'ratty' is doing. #citizenscience #chalkstream

Vapes are an environmental catastrophe, today the sale & supply single use vapes is illegal. We & many others, including Laura Young have campaigned for this. We've seen first hand this new pollution source appear on the riverbeds of our chalk streams. #singleusevapes

One of the easiest things we can do to reduce river pollution is to stop using spot-on flea treatments on dogs that play in water. I've a short-haired dog and I've only ever treated him for fleas twice in 10 years, when we could see that he had them. Only treat them when you must

Another Action for the River Kennet (ARK) River School day on the #Kennet, today Yr3 from Baydon St Nicholas. Exploring the water meadow, sketching healthy river habitat and river features, paddling, we found fresh otter spraints, stickleback, bullhead, brook lamprey, caddis, mayfly & shrimp.

It is great to see our local MPs standing up for chalk streams in Parliament today. The petition for the Chalk Stream recovery pack has over 11,000 signatures - a clear sign that people care about these precious rivers. Please add your voice: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7113… #chalkstream

A secondary school tailored River School day on the Dun for 45 Yr 8 students from John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford. Fantastic to get these local students out in their local river for their Geography work. #riverschool #chalkstream

River School in the Kennet at Ramsbury yesterday for Yr 3 students from Ramsbury Primary. Lots of outdoor learning & fun at their local stretch of chalk stream. More chalk stream ambassadors truly engaged with these special rivers. A big thank you to our River School team 👏

Spotted and filmed on the Kennet this week by River Keeper Jimmy at The Wilderness, Kintbury. Thank you for sharing. Overhanging branches are what kingfisher require for resting and for perching to observe and then dive for fish. #chalkstream

A busy day showing Kennet river life to Open Farm Sunday visitors at The Wilderness, Kintbury (part of the Benham Estate). #chalkstream

Volunteer water vole survey training day on the Kennet at Minal. The day was to increase our water vole surveying capacity on the Pang and add to our trained volunteers in the Kennet catchment too. Thank you to all of today's volunteers. #citizenscience

Today a bespoke River School for 60 Yr 10 students from St John's, Marlborough. GCSE fieldwork, using 2 Kennet sites to assess and compare for biodiversity and environmental quality. These River Schools are part of our Connecting the Kennet project.#chalkstream

Our Director Charlotte Hitchmough met up with Danny Kruger MP, watch this short video where she highlights the decision by our current government not to go ahead with the Water Restoration Fund & what a missed opportunity this is for our rivers dannykruger.org.uk/news/water-res…

Good to see Olivia Bailey standing up for chalk streams and highlighting our work and that of others too.

We are pleased Danny Kruger MP has tabled an amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to ensure our chalk streams get protected status: dannykruger.org.uk/news/update-pr…

This week we've worked with 150 Yr 10 students running hands on sessions in the Kennet at 2 sites for them to carry out their GCSE Geography fieldwork. Great for the school to stay local and the students to gain a better understanding of their local environment. #chalkstream

A lapwing chick at the new Sulham Wetland, created last year. The wetland fits into a larger inspirational wildlife project across the estate led by BioCap, read more: biocap.org.uk/post/sulham-wo… Credit Dave Valler BioCap North Wessex Downs National Landscape MendtheGap Defra UK The National Lottery Heritage Fund

The Kennet at our Stonebridge Wild River Reserve, managed to be an exemplar chalk stream habitat. Today water vole at the riverbank, wren, chiffchaff & blackbirds by the boardwalk, speckled wood & meadow brown butterflies, broad bodied chaser and banded demoiselles on the wing.

River School workshop 1 at The Willows Primary School, Newbury today. Our River School Officer Emily was impressed by the questions asked by Yr 5 Another ARK Hero pin badge awarded. River School workshop 2 is very soon getting Yr 5 into their local river, the Lambourn.