Unlocking the Severn
@SevernUnlocked
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River restoration project which has unlocked 158 miles of the UK’s longest river for people and wildlife. This project is now complete. Find us on FB or Insta.
Worcester, England
Joined January 2017
Check out our latest feature in @guardian, released today! 📰😍 What a lovely way to round off the amazing Unlocking the Severn project, and a hopeful look towards a brighter future for migratory fish in the UK's longest river. 👇 https://t.co/u3xKfE0q2w
#RiverSevern #UKNews
theguardian.com
When four navigational weirs were built on the Severn they blocked the route of the twaite shad as they made their way upriver. Now, a system of fish passes means they can come home to breed
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A huge #ThankYou to the Diglis Island Guides – over 800 people visited Diglis Island or the fish pass during the Worcester Festival. Congratulations Penny, Siou and Ian on your volunteering achievements. #VolunteerByWater
https://t.co/qWus7FC7BR
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A big thank you to all our #volunteer Diglis Island Guides, who welcomed 2,000 visitors to the fish pass in May and surpassed 10,000 visitors last week. We couldn't do it without your constant support #VolunteerByWater #VolunteersWeek
https://t.co/Xmt0NLwdOx
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This #VolunteersWeek we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to our wonderful volunteers. Our waterways need many hands to help look after them, and these wonderful people assist in making them a positive place for local communities and wildlife to enjoy #VolunteerByWater
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May is already a special month as we celebrate the #SevernShadRun, so it is very fitting that we also reached a big milestone today, at the end of May. We welcomed our 10,000th visitor to #Diglis today! 🥳🎆 Here’s to many more memories made at the fish pass. 🐟
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In the field last week, kingfishers flashing, mayflies dancing, fish jumping, green woodpeckers laughing...(OK hard work too cf. ALT)! #KnowledgeExchange success from @CanalRiverTrust Diglis Fish Pass evident from local public discussing eDNA and shad with me [@clareycollins]🥰
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Return of endangered twaite shad to its spawning grounds on the River Severn celebrated --> #ConservationOptimism
@SevernUnlocked @CanalRiverTrust @EnvAgency @severnrivers @NaturalEngland
https://t.co/U2TQr1ol3r
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Sound the shad alert! 🐟🚨 We’ve had our FIRST SHAD of 2023 through #DiglisFishPass!! 🥳🥳 It's great to welcome these endangered fish back into the #RiverSevern. @CanalRiverTrust @EnvAgency @NaturalEngland @severnrivers
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Last night we were very proud finalists at the 2023 @UKRiverPrize Awards! 🤩🥳 We celebrated the achievements of Unlocking the Severn alongside 3 other incredible river restoration projects. 👏
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Hurrah! 😃🙌 We are at last able to share the brilliant news that our project is a #UKRiverPrize finalist at this year's River Restoration Conference. 🥳🐟
(2/4) Unlocking the Severn project, River Severn, recognised for restoring connectivity for migratory fish. Congratulations to everyone involved @CanalRiverTrust @EnvAgency @NaturalEngland @severnrivers @SevernUnlocked
#UKRiverPrize
https://t.co/6g4dsPxRNB
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We are so proud of the brilliant efforts of our #GreenTeam. Rain or shine these folks are always working together for nature 💪🌿🐟
Our Green Team #volunteers on Diglis Lock Island #Worcester have been hedge laying. They will lay it through the wood using hazel coppiced on the island to provide habitat for nesting birds and let more light into the woodland. Brilliant 👍 #VolunteerbyWater @SevernUnlocked
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Today we are #delivering our #popular '#SevernStory' #walkingtour. This #looks at the #history of this #famous #river, as it #flows #past #Worcester on its #long #journey to the #sea.#WorcestershireHour @SevernUnlocked #riversevern @WorcesterTIC @VisitWorcester #WorcesterTourism
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🌿🌸 Happy 1st March! 🌸🌿 We are excited to announce the start of the #DiglisIsland and #DiglisFishPass visitor season! Our first set of tour and drop-in dates are now live on our website 🥳 Follow us on Facebook for further info about tours and events. https://t.co/PUU0TA6noG
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Fascinating results from our PhD student @MYeldham, looking at the timings of when twaite shad begin their #SevernShadRun 👏🐟 Do have a read of the full paper via the link in Mark's post below. 👇 #FollowTheShad @BU_Research @HullUniScience @EnvAgencyMids
In the first output from my PhD research, we find that day length is the most significant predictor of when twaite shad return to the River Severn during their spawning migrations, with high individual repeatability in timing of river entry between years: https://t.co/fxJMimcZsV
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This year we are looking for some more friendly faces to join our team of Diglis Island Guides, in advance of the visitor season beginning in the spring. 🐟😎 Check out the post below for more info 👇
Thinking of #volunteering? Come to our Welcome Day for #volunteers at #Worcester on Feb 16 at the workshop on Diglis Island to find out more. We'd love to have you onboard 😃 More info here 👉 https://t.co/jtFjVNibcS
#VolunteerByWater @SevernUnlocked
https://t.co/ls3Fb72V3T
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Huge congratulations to our Diglis Island Guide, Laura, for receiving an Academic Scholarship Award for outstanding achievement at @worcester_uni 👏👏
worcesterobserver.co.uk
A number of Academic Scholarships of £1,000 for outstanding achievement as well as eight individual academic prizes were presented
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With the recession in river levels @EnvAgencyMids #FisheriesOfficers have been doing the rounds to check flood areas for stranded fish. Today in #Worcester on the racecourse they rescued 31 #pike, #carp, #perch plus many small #dace, #chub & #bleak returned safely to the river.
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Looking back through pics on my phone and found this video from the16/05/22. Only a middling tide, but I had the world to myself. Great to see the Bore form a barrel on the Church Rock. I like to think lots of shad, elvers and salmon were hitching a ride! @SevernUnlocked
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