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London Rivers Week 2024: Deptford Creek Bird Survey
Join the Creekside Discovery Centre as they survey the birdlife of the Deptford Creek in South East London. We will meet at Creekside Discovery Centre...
London Rivers Week 2024: Elmbridge Meadows Community Day
Join the South East Rivers Trust on Sunday 23rd June for a day of river-themed family fun! Come and learn more about the Elmbridge Meadows...
Chiswick Eyot Conservation Days
Chiswick Eyot Draw dock at the bottom of Chiswick Lane where it meets Chiswick Mall around the corner of Fuller’s Brewery, London, United KingdomSign up here > https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/SOFDtIgw70Gohc6XHNvd Thames21 are working to restore Chiswick Eyot. Information about the day: Volunteer and help us to stabilise the island from...
London Rivers Week 2024: Deptford Creek Fish Survey
Want to learn more about the aquatic life that calls Deptford Creek home? Then come to the Creekside Discovery Centre to help with its fish...
London Rivers Week 2024: Channelsea Conservation
Join our friends Surge Co-operative for a day of conservation work on the Channelsea River and at garden called 'Long Wall Ecology'. You will start...
London Rivers Week 2024: WaterBlitz Showcase – Revealing insights from the Marsh Dykes and Thamesmead catchment
OnlineJoin us on Monday June 24th during London Rivers Week for an exclusive online talk where we unveil the results from the recent WaterBlitz collection...
London Rivers Week 2024: Make London a ‘sponge city’ panel event
There is an urgent need to increase London’s resilience to climate change by creating major new wetland areas and an estimated 357,000 new rain gardens...
London Rivers Week 2024: Longford River Plasticblitz
The Longford is an urban river with a plastic pollution problem. Please join Thames Landscape Strategy to help litter pick this fantastic river to make...
London Rivers Week 2024: WaterBlitz Showcase – Revealing insights from the Marsh Dykes and Thamesmead catchment
OnlineJoin us on Monday June 24th during London Rivers Week for an exclusive online talk where we unveil the results from the recent WaterBlitz collection...
London Rivers Week 2024: Watervole recovery and a mink-free Britain
Join Water Life Recovery Trust for an online webinar to learn about their trailblazing partnership project to eradicate invasive American Mink from Britain. Learn about...
London Rivers Week 2024: Restoring the River Roding
Wanstead Park- The Temple Wanstead Park, London, United KingdomWelcome to London Rivers Week! This special occasion is dedicated to honoring London's rivers and recognizing London as a river city. Join us in celebrating...
London Rivers Week 2024: Greenwich – Tidal Thames fishery survey on the foreshore of Royal Naval College
The Environment Agency fishery team will carry out a fish survey at Greenwich Foreshore. This entails carrying out a seine netting, kick-samples, and measuring and...
London Rivers Week 2024: Walk from Tottenham to Enfield Lock
Join the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority for a London Rivers Week walk from Tottenham to Enfield Lock. This week's walk in the park leads...
London Rivers Week 2024: Slade Pond Water Sampling Day
Slade PondJoin us in London Rivers Week - meeting at the end of Roydene Road, SE18 19Z --- https://what3words.com/train.energy.case PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/sLRN9vf6nx6rRe2BI7DE Water samplers and...
London Rivers Week 2024: Citizen Science Water Quality Monitoring in the Thames Basin – Overview and Plans for the Future
Join this online webinar to find out about some of the citizen science water quality monitoring activities happening around the Thames Basin! We will also...
London Rivers Week 2024: Fungi & Rivers – The Missing Link
Fungi are usually associated with terrestrial habitats, like forests and grassland, but their role in sustaining healthy aquatic ecosystems – including rivers – is often...
London Rivers Week 2024: Bat Walk at Syon
Come for a wander in Syon Park, the only part of unembanked riverside on the Tidal Thames, in the dark and find out about our...
London Rivers Week 2024: Wade through the River Ravensbourne and Clean-Up
Join the Friends of the River Pool for a wade through the River Ravensbourne and a clean-up, as part of London Rivers Week 2024. Date...
London Rivers Week 2024: Balsam Bash
Come and work with the Friends of Barnes Common on freeing the banks of the Beverley Brook from the invasive Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) that is spreading...
London Rivers Week 2024: Short film screening of Jack Thurgar’s ‘The Swamp’ and talk by Tom Bolton on Obscure Rivers
Walbrook Wharf 78-83 Upper Thames Street, London, United KingdomJoin us as part of London Rivers Week 2024 for a short film screening of Jack Thurgar’s ‘The Swamp’ and talk by Tom Bolton on...
London Rivers Week 2024: Southmere Lake Water Sampling Day
Southmere Lake Binsey Walk, Thamesmead, United KingdomJoin us in London Rivers Week - meeting in cygnet square by the Nest Community Library --- https://what3words.com/drum.supporter.drop PLEASE REGISTER HERE: https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/BiVSu6a3wOlx9dBb5Zsg Water samplers and...
London Rivers Week 2024: Balsam Bash in Ham
Join Thames Landscape Strategy on Wed Jun 26 2024 at 17:00 at Ham Street Car Park for an evening of fun and community spirit. Let's...
London Rivers Week 2024: The River Ravensbourne from the perspective of a Pebble
Join a geomorphologist (mud/gravel expert) for this evening walk from Ravensbourne station to Catford Bridge to understand how the shape and form of a river...
London Rivers Week 2024: Evening History Walk on Barnes Common
Join Friends of Barnes Common during London Rivers Week for an evening history walk led by its Chair, Mike Hildesley. With a focus on the...
London Rivers Week 2024: Restoring the River Ravensbourne
Celebrate London Rivers Week 2024 with us at Glassmill Pond in Bromley! Join our volunteer event as we continue our restoration work on the River...