Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. American signal crayfish are in invasive non-native species which burrow into banks to increased flood risk as well as outcompete native fish species. Luckily, we have very few American Signal Crayfish in West Cumbria but we do have an ongoing crayfish management project near Keswick. This involves going out and checking the crayfish traps, sexing and measuring them before humanely dispatching them.
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust
Volunteering
Citizen Scientists play an important role in collecting, recording and analysing data about our rivers, lakes, surrounding habitats and wildlife. All of this information can help us to establish the overall health of rivers and habitats and can influence future work and projects.
Volunteering
West Cumbria Rivers Trust offers a wide range of volunteering opportunities. Please note that most of our opportunities are seasonal, so even if you don't see something available right now but listed in the General Volunteering Opportunities section, please do still fill in an application form and…
Volunteering
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. To keep tabs on our work and how successful projects have been we run various different monitoring and surveying programmes that we sometimes need volunteer help with. This can be anything from helping to download time lapse footage, to downloading…
Volunteering
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. Mink are an invasive non-native species and threaten have a dramatic impact on biodiversity by predating on ground nesting birds, fish and other wildlife. Mink are also well known for being the number one driver in the loss of water vole populations in…
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