Solving Complex Problems that can only be Solved Collectively
The Wye Catchment Partnership formed in 2014 to bring together organisations, initiatives and individuals who have a shared interest in the catchment. It facilitates collaborative working to deliver improvements across several key themes.
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Imagine a drop of rain falling in the Cambrian mountains starting a journey 135 miles long to the sea; it will babble past ancient woodland, descend over dams and watermill weirs, meander through water meadows past traditional orchards, draining fertile fields rearing stock and growing crops, gliding through riverside towns and villages, before reaching the mud flats of the Severn Estuary.
This is the journey of the River Wye. Entwined in the English and Welsh border it is home to many rare and precious flora and fauna, provides drinking water, and enables food production as well as supporting diverse tourism and recreation.
Our Priorities
Who’s Involved?
The partnership has a diverse membership with representatives from rivers trusts, wildlife trusts, governmental organisations, private forestry, farming unions, water companies, conservation trusts and local companies as well as interested individuals.
The membership is open to all. If you have an interest in the Wye please do get involved!
Afonydd Cymru
ADAS
Avara
Bannau Brycheiniog National Park
Brienton Council
Bright Space Foundation
Campaign for Farmed Environment
Campaign to Protect Rural England –CPRE Herefordshire
Campaign to Protect Rural Wales – CRPW
Cardiff University
Catchment Sensitive Farming
Country landowners Association
Coed Cymru
Cranfield University
DCWW Welsh Water
Duchy of Cornwall
Elan Valley Trust
English Severn and Wye Regional Flood and Coastal Committee
Environment Agency
Farming Connect
Farm Cymru
Farm Herefordshire
Farming Union of Wales
Farming Wildlife Advisory Group – FWAG Cymru
Field Options
Freshwater Habitats Trust
Friends of the River Wye
Gwent Wildlife Trust
Hay River Wye Alliance
Hereford Local Nature Partnership
Herefordshire Council
Herefordshire Meadows
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust
Internal Drainage Board – Lugg
Keep Wales Tidy Llangarron Parish Council Lugg & Arrow Fisheries Association
Monmouthshire County Council
Monnow Rivers Association
Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
National Sheep Association
National Farmers Union
Natural England
Natural Resources Wales
Noble
NFU Cymru
North Star Transition
Pasture Fed Livestock Association
Pasture for Life
Powys County Council
Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Rotary District D1100 (Clubs in Monmouth, Hereford, Ross on Wye, Chepstow and the Forest of Dean)
Rotary Monmouth
RSPB
Save the Wye Coalition
Severn Trent Water
Tarmac
Tilhill Forestry
Woodland Trust/Coed Cadw
Wye Alliance
Wyecliff Fishery
Wye Catchment Conservators
Wye Navigation Advisory Committee
Wye & Usk Foundation
Wye Salmon Association
Wye Valley National Landscape