Kirkby Malham Parish Hall, Skipton Friday 11th April 2025 The Natural Flood Management (NFM) Community of Practice (CoP) gathered for a vibrant and collaborative event hosted by Ousewem. With over 40 attendees spanning practitioners, academics, regulators, consultants, and landowners, this event was designed to share insights, tackle common monitoring challenges and get hands-on with field … Read more
Around 100 local authority employees are being trained in a new project to help improve the mental well-being of people whose properties have flooded or at are risk of flooding. The Psychological First Aid Training will start this month and be delivered by specialist trainers Purple Dog to a diverse range of front-line staff including … Read more
I am the Graduate Trainee in Green Finance and Peatland Restoration within WaterLANDS UK. My role is to help build capacity and mobilise the use of green finance to support and deliver peatland restoration across the Great North Bog. This involves sourcing and engaging private sector finance, raising the profile of peatland restoration work delivered … Read more
Artists at Fleet Moss WaterLANDS UK artists in residence Laura Harrington and Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald) gave a presentation at a two day conference hosted in the New Forest’s tree house venue. The Conference, held in September 24, was called ‘The Long View: Art, a sense of place, belonging and reciprocity in relation to landscape’ and focused … Read more
News from WaterLANDS UK Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness In the UK, the WaterLANDS team has been working with the Great North Bog – a coalition of six delivery partnerships – to support blanket bog restoration at scale across the whole of the north of England. This includes support around monitoring, planning, finance, citizen science, community … Read more
Our Autumn CoP meeting at the Broughton Hall Estate was a resounding success. The event centred on beaver reintroduction for natural flood management and biodiversity enhancement. With engaging presentations, a site visit to the beaver enclosure, and a lively panel discussion, attendees gained valuable insights into this innovative approach’s practicalities, benefits, and challenges. Topics discussed … Read more
Ruth Bookbinder, Julia Martin-Ortega, Joshua Cohen – University of Leeds Aims and approach This report marks an initial step in our efforts to understand how risks in nature commodification are captured in green finance policy in the UK. It presents an analysis based on 19 policy and advisory documents identified from a public presentation of … Read more
We are looking for practitioners to help us shape policies to support the delivery of more widespread use of evidence-based Nature Based Solutions (NBS). As part of a project funded by Research England, Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), based at the University of Leeds, is conducting a survey to understand the main challenges faced by practitioners … Read more
Pictured: Himalayan Balsam Invasive Non Native Species (INNS) are any non native animal or plants and they can cause significant damage to our environment. They affect the quality of freshwater, including water in our rivers, can clog up water systems and increase flood risk. Rather than focusing on treating INNS – prevention needs to be … Read more
A successful bid for £36,000 is to be used to help improve the mental well-being of communities at risk of flooding. The bid for funding by West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (WYFLIP) has been approved during the Environment Agency’s national Flood Action Week by Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. The money will be used … Read more
