Earlier this month we held our latest Big River Watch week, a citizen science initiative where we encourage everyone in the UK and Ireland to spend time by their local rivers and share what they observe through our free app. This event saw a fantastic turn out, with 4,800 participants connecting with our rivers and submitting 2,700 surveys. Altogether, across a single week, we spent an incredible total of 50 days watching and monitoring our rivers.

The recent Big River Watch ran from the 6th-12th of September and here is what you reported from the river’s edge: