The next meeting of the Lower Lea Catchment Partnership will be 16th November 2016, 7pm at Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3GP. Read more ...

Catchment Hosts, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust held the first ever River Lea Catchment Conference on the evening of 19th October. Read more ...

An exciting new project has just been launched to connect young people to the River Lea in Luton and Central Bedfordshire. The Junior River Wardens programme is a citizen science project which will engage 16 schools and four youth or uniformed groups in the Luton Lea catchment area to monitor the River Lea and its tributaries. Read more ...

Places are still available on the last Riverfly training course of 2016 which will be held on Saturday 15 October at Digswell (near Welwyn Garden City) in Hertfordshire. Read more ...

HMWT, the Environment Agency and Queen Mary University London are seeking volunteers who would be interested in being trained to conduct the new Modular River Surveys. Read more ...

Slimy Wrigglers was featured on page 2 in the Hertfordshire Mercury on 22/09/2016. Read more ...

A cutting edge bird-tagging project using GPS tags has tracked a green sandpiper, a small wading bird, from Hertfordshire all the way to Norway and back. Read more ...

Houghton Regis resident Sally has been keeping an eye on the Woodside Link developments and helping to limit the impact they have on local wildlife. Read more ...

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust (HMWT) together with support from Environment Agency and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, has installed two new eel passes in the Lower River Lea to aid eel migration from the River Thames. Read more ...

On September 1^st new members of Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust were welcomed to Lemsford Springs nature reserve to explore the underwater world of Hertfordshire's chalk rivers. Read more ...