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Wild Haweswater
United Kingdom
Registrace 8. 11. 2019
Nestled in the folds of Haweswater’s dramatic landscape lie pockets of wildness; alpine plants cling to cliffs and ledges, whilst woodland birds, red squirrels and badgers teem in the woodlands.
The quiet, rugged charm of Haweswater sets it apart from many of the more popular Lake District honeypots, offering opportunities for seclusion and wildlife encounters unlike any other in the National Park.
Wild Haweswater is an exciting new initiative by the RSPB and United Utilities to showcase the impressive collection of events, experiences and activities on offer in this wild corner of the National Park. Coordinated by RSPB Haweswater, wildhaweswater.co.uk is a hub for visitors to explore what’s on offer, as well as a place to discover the conservation and restoration projects, and seasonal wildlife encounters of the area.
How will you discover Wild Haweswater?
The quiet, rugged charm of Haweswater sets it apart from many of the more popular Lake District honeypots, offering opportunities for seclusion and wildlife encounters unlike any other in the National Park.
Wild Haweswater is an exciting new initiative by the RSPB and United Utilities to showcase the impressive collection of events, experiences and activities on offer in this wild corner of the National Park. Coordinated by RSPB Haweswater, wildhaweswater.co.uk is a hub for visitors to explore what’s on offer, as well as a place to discover the conservation and restoration projects, and seasonal wildlife encounters of the area.
How will you discover Wild Haweswater?
Cumbria River Restoration Partnership Programme - European Riverprize winners 2022
An ambitious programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District beat competition from across Europe to win the prestigious European Riverprize 2022.
The award was in recognition of efforts across Cumbria to reinstate natural river processes that benefit both people and wildlife.
The Cumbrian River Restoration partnership programme has improved almost 100km of river length and restored over 150 hectares of floodplain across the catchments of the Rivers Eden, Derwent and Kent. It has also reduced flood risk, removed plastic from rivers and boosted biodiversity in the region.
Partners on the project include the Environment Agency, Natural England, West Cumbria Rivers Trust, Eden Rivers Trust, South Cumbria Rivers Trust, the RSPB, United Utilities, the National Trust, Ullswater CIC, Salford University, Dynamic Rivers and Ebsford Environmental.
The rivers of the Lake District have been impacted by changing patterns of farming and land management over many centuries. All the watercourses within Cumbria have at some point been modified or altered to create space for farming practices.
This has exacerbated the effects of several severe flood events in recent years, with the area also suffering degradation of designated protected areas and a severe decline in biodiversity.
The Cumbria River Restoration partnerships programme has carried out more than 100 separate projects including reintroducing meanders, removing weirs and planting trees.
Practical work was also accompanied by engagement, training and educational initiatives including community events, volunteer days, internal and external training, conference and workshop presentations.
First awarded in 2013, the European Riverprize celebrates excellence in the management, conservation and development of Europe’s rivers, wetlands and surrounding communities. Historically, the prize is award in conjunction with the International River Symposium, which attracts an audience of Europe’s leading advocates for environment and river protection, including the European Commissioner for Environment.
In 2022, the European Riverprize was awarded during the Gala Dinner of the 25th International River Symposium in Vienna.
The other two finalists were a campaign to save one of Europe’s last wild rivers, the Vjosa in Albania, and a project covering the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers in central Europe.
The award was in recognition of efforts across Cumbria to reinstate natural river processes that benefit both people and wildlife.
The Cumbrian River Restoration partnership programme has improved almost 100km of river length and restored over 150 hectares of floodplain across the catchments of the Rivers Eden, Derwent and Kent. It has also reduced flood risk, removed plastic from rivers and boosted biodiversity in the region.
Partners on the project include the Environment Agency, Natural England, West Cumbria Rivers Trust, Eden Rivers Trust, South Cumbria Rivers Trust, the RSPB, United Utilities, the National Trust, Ullswater CIC, Salford University, Dynamic Rivers and Ebsford Environmental.
The rivers of the Lake District have been impacted by changing patterns of farming and land management over many centuries. All the watercourses within Cumbria have at some point been modified or altered to create space for farming practices.
This has exacerbated the effects of several severe flood events in recent years, with the area also suffering degradation of designated protected areas and a severe decline in biodiversity.
The Cumbria River Restoration partnerships programme has carried out more than 100 separate projects including reintroducing meanders, removing weirs and planting trees.
Practical work was also accompanied by engagement, training and educational initiatives including community events, volunteer days, internal and external training, conference and workshop presentations.
First awarded in 2013, the European Riverprize celebrates excellence in the management, conservation and development of Europe’s rivers, wetlands and surrounding communities. Historically, the prize is award in conjunction with the International River Symposium, which attracts an audience of Europe’s leading advocates for environment and river protection, including the European Commissioner for Environment.
In 2022, the European Riverprize was awarded during the Gala Dinner of the 25th International River Symposium in Vienna.
The other two finalists were a campaign to save one of Europe’s last wild rivers, the Vjosa in Albania, and a project covering the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers in central Europe.
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UK River Prize 2022 - Restoring Swindale Valley
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A partnership project to restore habitats in the valley of Swindale near Haweswater in the Lake District has won the 2022 UK River Prize Project-scale Award.
Life Beyond The Ledge: Creating Mardale Mountain Meadow
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Hidden away on the crags of Harter Fell are fragments of natural wonder. Away from the footpaths and the grassy slopes, flowers festoon steep gullies and ledges. Roseroot, wood cranesbill, wild angelica, yellow mountain saxifrage and devil’s bit scabious grow alongside lush stands of ferns and great The flowers provide nectar for a great abundance of insect life and the steep cliffs make safe n...
A Vision for Haweswater's Future
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Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The landscape is undoubtedly beautiful, full of Lake District grandeur. However on closer inspection, major ecological issues stand out... This Wild Haweswater film shares a vision for the future of this RSPB reserve, showing how bold action today can secure a vibrant future...
More wiggles and wetlands for Haweswater
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Following from the successful 'rewiggling' of Swindale Beck in 2016, the RSPB have once again teamed up with United Utilities and the Environment Agency, as well as Ebsford Environmental and AquaUoS, to restore a natural river system in the valley. With works completed in October 2020, the historically straightened drain has been re-naturalised to feature meanders, and reconnected with the natu...
Naddle Forest | Red Squirrel Signs
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A quick exploration of Naddle Forest, a SSSI Western Atlantic Oakwood, with RSPB Haweswater’s Visitor Development Officer Heather, in search of Red Squirrel signs.
RSPB Haweswater tree nursery (in 60 seconds!)
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Planting thousands of trees has to start somewhere... and for us, it's right here at our RSPB Haweswater Naddle Farm base, in our on site tree nursery. Intern Lucy Hughes gives a whistle-stop introduction to the process, in 60 seconds. (Filmed by Heather Devey)
Haweswater's Red Squirrels
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RSPB Haweswater is a stronghold for Red Squirrels, and their bright red flashes can often be seen scampering through the treetops of Naddle Forest. Filmed and edited by Will Mercer. Music by Lee Schofield (leeschofield.co.uk/)
Haweswater Cam: Curious Roe Doe
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This Roe Doe was ready for her close up as she passed through Naddle Forest, Haweswater.
Haweswater Cam: Badger Cubs in Bluebells
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A couple of beautiful bundles make their way through Naddle Forest's bluebells in search of food. Check out our link to find out how to visit our Haweswater Badger Hide.
Haweswater Cam: Fox Trot
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Red Foxes are elusive at Haweswater, but our camera traps manage to pick them up in gnarly Naddle Forest.
Haweswater Cam: Roe Buck grazing in Bluebells
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A Roe Buck (Capreolus capreolus) forages amongst the bluebells of Naddle Forest.
Haweswater Cam: Roe Buck in Velvet
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A stunning Roe buck (Capreolus capreolus) crosses Haweswater's Naddle Beck amongst the gnarly trees. If you look closely you can see his antlers are in full velvet!
Haweswater Cam: Badger Family in Bluebells
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Haweswater Cam: Badger Family in Bluebells
Cute how they can't help but dip at every movement.
So distinctive isn't it. Also hilarious if you put a funky beat over the top - Annabel
@wildhaweswater5622 maybe that's your follow up video!!?!! Please PLEASE!!
Real video would have made this much better. Maybe get a drone with a camera if you do an update. 🌿
Hiya, this was produced as a vision of where we hope to get to by 2050, so it's not possible to use real video as it's not happened yet. We are capturing the changes as we go along using drones and other methods - Annabel
Wishing you much success in your project. I'm in the high desert of Arizona and am using some of Geoff Lawton's techniques to green the desert.
Very nice.
Don't EAT the Foxgloves! 🦊🧤🥀
Awesome. ❤
Great video! Should have way more likes & comments!😢
Thank you v much. We agree :) - Annabel
Expect less flooding downriver !
My opinion is that the 'climax' of most UK ecosystems is a mature woodland, including moors etc. All this grazing land is totally artificial.
nice to hear some of the technical bits ....
nice photography good job
A truly wonderful project that will have so many benefits. Here on Dartmoor, leaky dams have been installed on many of the smaller streams that spring up in the wet weather - and we do have quite a lot of that - and they will undoubtedly benefit the wider environment as well as the immediate local ones. Thanks, Lee, and thank you RSPB and others. PS. An excellent book! Here's to more being done in the lakes and other areas,
Excellent work, let us see more projects like this in the U.K.
Fantastic project. This is what is needed across our uplands. Benefits are many. To people and nature.
Thanks very much Sue. - Annabel
Absolutly beautiful, well done by you all.
Absolutly beautiful, well done
What has been the benefits please?
Hiya, thanks for the question. It depends on the project. Some have been about removing large amounts of plastic from river systems to benefit the wildlife. Some have been about removing artificial features such as weirs or embankments, and putting natural bends back into straightened courses - these have multiple benefits for wildlife, reducing flood risk and improving drinking water. More information on our project in Swindale here: bit.ly/UKRiverPrizeWinner22 - Annabel
Thank you.
Bring the bloody BEAVERS back!!!!!!
My fear is that climate change will just make shlte of all these efforts
Keep drinking the climate change cool aid!@deanfowles3707
I’ve written this so many time, but it really is a shame that things like this just don’t get the views.. but some self absorbed lass can get millions of views for putting make up on to make herself look like a drag queen
Give people credit for trying this, of course TREES with sheep and and cows is an option, - wont look like the paintings but - purbeck project - good example of sensible balance - makes money for landowners looks natural isnt yet, has campers walkers eco tourism - and makes more money than most farms per area for poor quality land - many do come to the lakes for the views but Cumbria, Lancs Westmorland is a big place ...
Congratulations congratulations
The bloody reservoir shouldn't fucking be there - it means there's a man-made dam and that absolutely should NOT be there!!!!
RSPB???
Amazing work!💪❤️
Planting trees like that is such a waste of resources. The seeds would naturally get there like they have done for millennia. However, the overpopulation of sheep is what is stopping it... If you keep the sheep out and stop the overgrazing, the whole thing would rewild for free. Like how beavers would have re-wiggled that river for... FREE. If only they had some trees to eat and use in the damn making.
Hiya, thanks for your feedback. We agree about sheep over-grazing, which is why we've reduced our flock and they only graze the enclosed land near the farm. We've also fenced out massive areas from sheep (and deer) to allow natural regeneration to take place which is happening. But we have also planted over 200,000 trees to give the landscape a helping hand too. And likewise, Beavers are in the plans....check out our vision video: bit.ly/HWRVision - Annabel
So inspiring.
Thanks Annie :) - Annabel
Regenerative ag is my religion.
bring in pine martens to control grey squirrel population
Very true - it's part of the plan - Annabel
And how would you prevent the Pine Martens from affecting the local red squirrel population?
@@Brian-om2hh pine martins are known to only kill greys
get rid of overgrazing and bring back the lost woodlands
Absolutely! That's a big part of our work here. - Annabel
Read, wild fell.
Wow I hope I get to see this finished before I die, I currently have just 3 months before Retirement kicks in and in the past I have hike across this area twice on my Coast to Coast visits to the Lake District and one return visit to the Borrowdale area 10 years after my first visit to the Lake District in 2000. I find no matter the distance I walked or hiked in that area each day on my C2C Hike I always felt "at home" in that, for me, a far off Paradise. Tony in Essex
amazing video and job!
great job!
amazing mission!!
great video!!
Nice one. I will go have a look this spring when I go up visit my Mum. Great to see the diversity up there slowly change form the bare hills I grew up in.
I wonder why they got rid of that weir. It looks like they excavated some streams, and made some ponds/watersheds. Not a whole lot needed to be done though, I imagine. It's really beautiful.
It's a very thought provoking book. Highly recommended.
Great photography
Isn’t it Europe’s only aquatic passerine as well?
It is indeed :) - Annabel
and, to think, that BEAVER, left unattended, would do most of the river work for free.
They would indeed. Hopefully more of them to come in future. - Annabel
I would think so. In places like this, not a whole lot needs to be done with heavy machinery. It does more harm than good, it would seem.
There are hardly any trees for them to create dams, or use for food, so not suitable for beavers currently. Once a volume of trees have been planted and have matured, then beavers would be more likely to be a success.
Tree restoration can improve soil structure and PH .Along a river it can help with providing shade for fly life and small fish and trout and who knows maybe even salmon parr?
What a wonderful video! Seeing our wild lands being restored touches my heart so deeply. To see these places recovering and returning to their wild glory, and to see the wildlife return and flourish, is just wonderful. Big thanks to the RSPB! 🏞️👏😊🤸
YES HORSEWATER GO ON!!!
Lovely to see nature being given a chance to succeed. Great work
Great video on overall scheme - I’d love to learn more about some of the major projects.
"Traditional farming" is the problem. Green New Deal where locals get to stay where they are with a good income but not destroying the wild is the answer.
But doing that is communismizms or summin , and we can’t do that because Alan sugar said we shouldn’t do it.
I loved watching this! So peaceful and informative. A bit like bbc earth, but less storytelling.
good shot of a deer stripping a young tree ... there are 1 million deer in scotland now so there is hardly any natural regeneration .since it was us that wiped out their predators its down to us to do the culling or lose what woodland is left