11 primary schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath and Somerset have been out in local rivers releasing 550 young European eels which they have been studying as part of our Spawn to be Wild project. Each primary school looked after approximately 50 elvers (young eels) for 4 weeks, during which time they learnt all about…
Alongside our elver assemblies and check ups for our Spawn to be Wild project, BART have been busy running lessons in our 11 project primary schools. We have had countless great questions about the elvers, however one in particular got us thinking, ‘Why does it matter if all the eels die?’. To answer this, BART…
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust are excited to announce the 2019 Bristol Avon WaterBlitz; a yearly campaign to collect as many water quality samples as possible in a week from across the Bristol Avon Catchment, between Saturday 1st June – Friday 7th June. Join hundreds of people in using the free and simple to use water…
BART are delighted to announce that we have bought eels to 11 classrooms along the Bristol Avon for the fourth year running! The ‘Spawn to be Wild’ project is an innovative education project between Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, Avon Wildlife Trust & Bristol Water that seeks to engage pupils with the wildlife in their local…
During 2019, BART will be delivering a River Chew Fisheries Improvement Strategy to develop improvement plans which could be made to the river as a fishery. The work will build on the recent Environment Agency fisheries reports highlighting the need for fisheries improvements and will be designed to help scope improvements which may be made…