Guidance for CaBA Partnerships on peatland protection and restoration, the availability of mapped data, reduction in emissions and ecosystem service benefits.

This report summarises catchment partnership resilience and the potential sources of income and strategies that could be applied by Catchment Partnerships.

The report represents a summary of work undertaken as part of a wider pilot programme exploring Catchment Partnership resilience.

The CaBA Benefits Report report states that during 2018 to 2019, for every £1 directly invested by Government, CaBA partnerships have raised £3.20 of co-finance from a diverse range of non-Governmental funders. These include corporate businesses, water and waste companies (though landfill taxes), EU funds (LIFE, Interreg and Horizon 2020) as well as lottery funds.

This document helps support further integration of water resources management – incorporating scarcity and drought management – within the framework of CaBA.

This report has been written to help catchment partnerships, and other local environmental organisations, better understand the opportunities for, and ways to rise to the challenges of, attracting additional investment for environmental gain.

The Salmon and Trout Conservation collated a Riverfly Census to collect high resolution, scientifically robust data about the state of our rivers and the pressures facing them.

The guidance is primarily for NFM scheme developers who use Leaky Woody Structures (LWS), but it will also inform landowners, commissioning bodies, contractors and consenting bodies about the risks they need to consider when planning the installation of these structures.

Guidance on gaining greater participation from rural industries in CaBA. This guidance sign-posts to a series of practical case studies illustrating good practice.

The Environment Agency has identified 40 projects in the Environment Agency’s Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk
Management current investment programme that include NFM measures as part of their solution.
The Environment Agency has surveyed project managers and practitioners to learn more about NFM, to have more confidence in it, and be able to use it as one of
the tools to reduce flood risk.

This report captures findings from the project River Remedies: Improving Wellbeing through Nature and concludes that river-based prescriptions have a positive effect in managing mental health risks and improved wellbeing.

How much can natural measures reduce flooding at large scales? To answer this question over the next three years the Q-NFM investigator team, lead by Lancaster University, will work in three large Cumbrian catchments (‘test basins’), the Eden, Derwent and Kent with their partners who are delivering NFM interventions .