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WINNER OF THE ORRI AWARD 2025
Ribble Rivers Trust has won a prestigious new national award for wild salmon conservation, supporting a community-led river restoration project that will both protect an endangered British species and help reduce local flood risk.
Launched this autumn 2025, ‘The Orri’ is a new community-based salmon conservation award from the North Atlantic Salmon Fund UK (NASF UK), named in honour of its internationally respected founder, Orri Vigfússon.
Our project, ‘Hodder Together For Salmon’, focuses on restoring salmon habitat in the River Hodder while actively involving local communities, schools and anglers.
OUR ACTIVITIES
There are four different factors we look at to decide how healthy a river is; water quality, water quantity, habitat health, and habitat connectivity. These four factors are all linked to each other and are the foundations of a healthy and well functioning river ecosystem.
If there are any problems affecting these four factors we can work to resolve them, and make our rivers healthier.
To do this we have seven key activities that we work on; engagement and education, woodland creation, fish passage, wetland creation, farm advice, farmland habitat improvements, and last, but by no means least, data and evidence.
Focussing on these activities enables us to ensure all the work we undertake serves a purpose and that all our projects are necessary and relevant to our aim of improving the Ribble catchment for wildlife and people.
LATEST BLOG POSTS FROM RIBBLE RIVERS TRUST
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Water Friendly Gardens: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference
If you step into your garden, it’s easy to see it as your own space, completely separate from everything beyond the fence. But when it rains, your garden connects directly to the wider river landscape. This is because everything in a river catchment is connected. Water moves through soil, lawns, patios and driveways before eventually…
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The Salmon Story: Why Atlantic Salmon Need Our Help
Every year, one of nature’s most remarkable journeys unfolds beneath the surface of our rivers. Born in cool, clear streams, young salmon begin life in freshwater before embarking on an epic migration to the North Atlantic. Years later, guided by an incredible instinct, they return to the very river where they were born to spawn…
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Blacksnape: managing flood risk for communities and Wildlife
Work has officially begun at Blacksnape in Darwen, where Ribble Rivers Trust has started creating a series of new ponds to help with Natural Flood Management. This work forms part of our wider Community Catchments project, which focuses on Natural Flood Management (NFM) in Lancashire communities. Over the coming weeks, our contractors will create seven…
