
Maggie Shelton
@m_h_shelton
Landscape ecologist working with communities @hantsiwwildlife (#WatercressAndWinterbournes)
💛bugs🐜, conservation, creativity, education
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"If the question is: do we have raw sewage spilling straight into rivers in the Severn Trent patch, then no, we definitely don’t." Said Liv Garfield CEO of Severn Trent fined over £2m for dumping sewage into the River Trent, what the court referred to as a "reckless failure". 🤔🤬

River restoration on the river Wensum. A short video showing the work that has been done and the end result. 8 hectares of the floodplain were restored, 4 ponds and 1100 meters of channel were created. With Norfolk Rivers Trust & Environment Agency

We keep finding #plastic fibres in our "pristine" #chalkstream samples😖 Depressing stuff. Look. Compare the size of #microplastic to the invertebrate. #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust WildFish #SmartRivers Wessex Rivers Trust


#Volunteers are monitoring #mink footprints on our #chalkstreams They are #InvasiveNonNativeSpecies that predate (amongst other things) #WaterVole , Britain's fastest declining mammal. #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #INNS


I see this beehive every year! The bees are busy now 😍 collecting pollen from #ChalkStream pussy willows and plants 🐝 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #insect

Chitty chatty Cetti on a chalkstream 😆 #CettisWarbler #River #Chalkstream #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

MOST EXCELLENT NEWS!!! So important + something we're working up on #WatercressAndWinterbournes on the #RiverTest and #RiverItchen Timely article in British Wildlife Mag Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust South Downs National Park The National Lottery Heritage Fund Wessex Rivers Trust #watervole #rivers #INNS #mink


Busy day IN THE 🌞🌞🌞 1. Put out a #mink raft 2. Supported Riverfly Partnership volunteers (kit drop) 3. Planned #volunteer workparties. Nice 2 see our footpath has really bedded in 😍 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #chalkstream



News for fans of #WatercressAndWinterbournes We are beavering away on our WildFish #SmartRivers samples😅 Here are some volunteers, limpets, pea mussels and snails. Wonderful chalkstreams😍💚 Made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust #rivers



#VolunteersWeek a peaceful morning on a #chalkstream, pulling out invasive "monkey flower" and listening to a #cuckoo Thank you to ALL our Chalk Stream Champions 🤩 who give SOOOOO much to #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

#volunteerweek2024 Shout out to #WatercressAndWinterbournes volunteers 💪 montage removing #INNS (plants that shouldn't be in a #chalkstream) 😇 See ONE of the piles we made B4 cleaning up, tea & jammie dodgers. The National Lottery Heritage Fund 🤞🤞🤞 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust



#VolunteerWeek2024 💪 improving a #chalkstream fen😇 Darren from Wessex Rivers Trust used his chainsaw; vols removed tree/bamboo; I checked for wildlife. Then we cleaned up, had tea/biscuits 😆 #WatercressAndWinterbournes The National Lottery Heritage Fund 🤞 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust 🌍💚


Out today pulling balsam. On a dreamy #chalkstream😍 #WatercressAndWinterbournes Made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and undertaken by our dedicated #volunteers #volunteering #invasivenonnative Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Environment Agency


Fancy a walk on a #chalkstream in Hampshire? Our Open Chalk Stream walks are on Eventbrite 💃 Google: "Wildlife Trust Eventbrite open chalk streams" to book😊 Always super popular. Places are limited. Tell your friends 😆 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Wessex Rivers Trust
