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Swallowfield Show - Donation To The LFCC

Details: Category: General; Published: 27 December 2024; Hits: 518

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The Loddon Fisheries & Conservation Consultative are delighted to have been chosen to receive a donation from the organisers of the Swallowfield Show. The 2 day event held every August Bank Holiday is a not-for-profit, family friendly event run by volunteers and members of the Swallowfield Horticultural Society for the benefit of the community and to raise funds for local charities.

The LFCC will use the funds to support habitat improvement projects, water quality monitoring being undertaken by its members, and initiatives aimed at managing invasive species. These are already prime areas that are receiving their attention within the Loddon catchment with the aim to improving the local rivers not simply for the fish but also the wider environment.

Donation group Swallowfield Show committee members Barbara & Graham Stanley, meet LFCC Chairman Martin Moore and members of Gresham Angling Society on the banks of the River Lyde. Gresham AS are a founder member of the LFCC and have been active in improving habitat in the River Lyde by creating new gravel beds, intended to encourage typical chalkstream plants and providing additional spawning sites for brown trout.

Scientists' statement on pollutants in water

Details: Category: Pollution; Published: 12 December 2024; Hits: 526

The recent EEA report ‘Europe's state of water 2024’ was a stark reminder that Europe’s freshwater and coastal ecosystems are under serious pressure. Nearly a quarter of a century after the adoption of the EU’s main water law, the Water Framework Directive (WFD), only 29% of surface waters and 77% of groundwater body area are reported to be in good chemical status.

Yet, this does not give the full picture, as chemical status under the WFD is only assessed against a small fraction of the substances present in the environment and largely overlooks the effects of chemical mixtures. In short, the full picture of chemical pollution in aquatic environments is underestimated and underreported.

The European institutions are now in the process of updating the priority pollutants to be regulated under EU water law, but the process is facing delays and EU Member States want to misuse this technical update of EU water pollution standards to weaken existing environmental safeguards of the WFD.

Calling all scientists, researchers and academics. We invite you to sign the Scientists' statement on pollutants in water: deadline for signatures is 1 January 2025.

We are inviting you to sign this statement in support of maintained ambition in the upcoming negotiations between the EU institutions on the final text.

The statement will be open for signatures up until 1 January 2025. Please note that sign-on is restricted to scientists, researchers and academics. We invite you to share it widely within your networks.