The Westcountry Rivers Trust Data & Evidence Team have delivered two pilot Natura 2000 Catchment Risk Assessment Reports for Natural England. These reports, prepared for the River Axe and Camel catchments, have adopted a weight of evidence approach to determine the pressures causing/threatening degradation of designated site ecological condition, to determine the sources of these pressures in the catchment and to develop a targeted and costed programme of interventions to mitigate their impact. The reports produced are intended to be working documents that become a shared resource used by local groups to deliver tangible measures on the ground.
