by Jonathan Louis | Monday, April 13, 2020
Eel Week Launches Today, 13th April 2020 This week will be a celebration of the European eel. We Hope by the end of the week you will be just as crazy about them as we are.  As many of you know we were holding the first eel conference in Scotland at the end of this...
by Jonathan Louis | Friday, April 10, 2020
Salmon productivity in the Forth District by Dr Jo Girvan One of the things we are interested in here at the Trust, is how well salmon populations are reproducing themselves. We want to know if salmon are producing young and where are the best and worst places for...
by Jonathan Louis | Thursday, April 9, 2020
‘Four legs good, six legs better’ by Iain Reid George Orwell famously wrote ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ While Orwell’s metaphor related to the human hypocrisy of proclaiming equality in a world of privilege, it also allows me...
by Jonathan Louis | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
eDNA surveying: a new approach to monitoring biodiversity Our DNA carries all of our genetic information. Organisms leave traces of their DNA in the environment and aquatic animals, from fish to freshwater pearl mussels, can be identified from water samples using a...
by Jonathan Louis | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
International Beavers Day – Beavers in the Forth It’s International Beaver Day and Forth Rivers Trust’s Ecologist Jack Wootton was out on the River Teith earlier in March, monitoring the beaver population. Though no beavers were seen on the day it was...
by Jonathan Louis | Monday, April 6, 2020
Forth Rivers Trust – Science Week 6/04/2020 This week marks the start of the Edinburgh Science Festival. The theme this year is elements: Air, Earth, Fire, Aether and Water. At the Forth Rivers Trust we are particularly excited about the Water for Life feature...
