Freshwater rewilding

1 Rivers

People have interacted with and depended on rivers for millennia.

In industrial times rivers were widely used for transport and to power mills and factories. This saw many waterways choked by dams and other artificial barriers and straightened to facilitate the transport of goods and people.

While many of these barriers and other interventions are now obsolete, they continue to have a hugely negative impact on fish, other wildlife and people.