England is home to 85 per cent of the world’s chalk streams
and other CaBA partners are taking to secure the future protection of these precious waters.
Most of England’s chalk streams flow through landscapes heavily impacted by agriculture and urban development and are threatened by water abstraction, sewage pollution, farming, and roads, by invasive species, and habitat degradation.Chair of the Chalk Stream Restoration Group, Charles Rangeley-Wilson, said: “England’s chalk streams are under intense pressure: they flow through the most urbanised, industrialised and intensely farmed parts of the UK. They need and deserve urgent attention.
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