The North Wales Rivers Trust are launching a community project this year to shine a light on one of our most mysterious and overlooked species, the European eel (Anguilla anguilla).

Young people from Maesgeirchen have created a powerful river rap for the Afon Cegin—blending music, creativity and environmental action to find their voice and stand up for their local river.

Every day in the UK, we drink around 98 million cups of coffee—but what happens to the materials that bring those beans to our shores? At the North Wales Rivers Trust, we’re giving used hessian coffee sacks a second life, repurposing them to support river restoration and improve habitats across our catchments.

Aspen was once a familiar sight along Welsh riverbanks, but grazing pressure has left it clinging on in isolated pockets across the landscape. In this post we explore how our Roots project is helping to bring it back.

Big thankyou to all of the volunteers who helped with the big Cegin clean up last week. Together we were able to remove lots of single use pollution from the river making it a healthier and nicer environment for both people and wildlife.

At the Aberlleiniog Sculpture Trail in Ynys Môn, the Roots Project brought creativity and community together—inviting people to share their stories, explore their connection to local rivers, and discover simple solutions to protect them.

Our work to protect and restore populations of the Freshwater pearl mussel has continued this month, building on the solid foundations already put in place during phase one.

Over the past month, we’ve completed a series of riparian and important river restoration works across Ynys Môn. The focus has been on fencing, planting, and reconnecting habitat

Leaky dams and bunds installed within the catchment are helping to slow runoff from historic slate spoil areas, reducing sediment entering the river and improving conditions for aquatic habitats.

We’re excited to share a new film about the Torgoch project, highlighting ongoing efforts to study and protect this rare glacial fish found in the lakes of Eryri.

Last week, we were delighted to visit local schools to deliver copies of Tesni the Torgoch to the pupils who helped shape and inspire the story.

As part of the Torgoch Project, we created a series of cascading pools and brash hurdles within forestry drains. These slow the flow of water, allowing acidic sediment to settle before it reaches the lake.

This month we have kick started our school sessions for the year in Maesgeirchen. This series of workshops is part of the Caru’r Cegin Blue Spaces project. With the help of the pupils we are reimagining what it means to be a community living and learning alongside rivers.

On Tuesday 24th March, from 18:00–19:00, the North Wales Rivers Trust will be hosting an online webinar exploring the incredible life cycle of the European eel and some of the reasons why this species is now critically endangered. We’ll take a closer look at how eels use rivers across North Wales, the barriers they face during migration, and the work being done to support their recovery.

Last month we were really pleased to get a group of local volunteers together to begin testing within the Ogwen catchment as part of our wider Lab Dwr and Menai Strait Partnership Forum projects.

We recently worked on a project on the Afon Gwna on Ynys Mon as part of our Sustainable Fisheries work funded by Natural Resources Wales. Working with the landowner we were able to install 500m metres of fencing and install pasture pumps as an alternative drinking source.

Over the past few months, we’ve been working to tackle one of the most damaging invasive non-native species (INNS) in our upland river catchments: Rhododendron ponticum.

North Wales Rivers Trust is working in partnership with Natural Resources Wales and the Mining Remediation Authority to reduce metal pollution entering the Afon Crewi from historic mine workings.

Last Thursday we headed out to Rhyl and Denbigh, to meet members of the public to discuss the issue of flooding. The aim was to gather people's experiences of local flooding events through open discussions and a short survey.