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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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Help Us Track Drought Across the Ribble Catchment
We Need Your Help Report a Dried-Up Watercourse Why Is Drought An Issue? After a summer of heatwaves and prolonged dry weather, more than 70% of England is now officially in drought and many of the small becks, streams, and gills that feed our rivers are shrinking dramatically, and in some cases drying up completely.…
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PRESS RELEASE: Rare white-clawed crayfish given lifeline
Rare white-clawed crayfish given lifeline as recovery work begins across the North Northern rivers will play a key role in a national project to save the native white-clawed crayfish from disappearing from our rivers and streams. A major conservation effort is underway across the North of England to help save the UK’s only native freshwater…
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Walking the Ribble Way!
The Ribble Way is a captivating long-distance trail that traces the course of the River Ribble from its mouth near Preston all the way to its source in the stunning Yorkshire Dales. Along this 72-mile journey, you’ll pass through charming villages like Ribchester and Clitheroe, enjoy breathtaking views of Pendle Hill, and explore historic towns…
