by admin | Monday, April 8, 2019
Last weekend (24 March) Forth Rivers Trust’s Assistant led a guided walk at Muiravonside Country Park, where we met with around 10 participants at the car park where we started the walk. The first thing we talked about was the river Avon, its source at Fannyside Loch...
by admin | Friday, March 8, 2019
A few of the team popped along today to the wonderfully accommodating Almondell & Calderwood Country Park, who having shared their river pollution issues with us a while back, are now in receipt of Annie Lord’s new artwork. Made up of a selection of a few of...
by Amelia | Wednesday, March 6, 2019
There are three sites on the river Almond, within Almondell country park, where the river bank and path are badly eroded by foot- and paw-fall. To find a solution to this problem, the Friends of Almondell and Calderwood Country Park approached the RiverLife team and...
by admin | Friday, March 1, 2019
The River Almond has areas of great beauty but it also has a lot of unpleasant aspects, not the least the amount of sewage works that release water and occasionally other materials into the river. Kirsty, one of the rangers for West Lothian Council, told us of times...
by Amelia | Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Our RiverRubbish project has been rolling along well, this is the first time we have run volunteer and public events specifically around the issue of litter and sewage in our rivers. This season’s project has been based at the Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, a...
by Amelia | Monday, August 21, 2017
[spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom=”no” pb_border_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] The team were at the Canal Fun Day in Linlithgow this weekend promoting healthy rivers and the work which will be...
