WWF has today published a blog that I wrote for them earlier this summer on the dire straits of some of our Home Counties chalk-streams.

They had commissioned me to take pictures of some of the rivers we had been campaigning for over the last few years. In the early summer drought it was a sobering journey. Dry river after dry river. Look at the line of moss on the image above to get a sense of how low the Chess was in Chesham: those ducks are standing on the river bed!

WWF is hoping to ramp up its Rivers on the Edge campaign (and a forthcoming sewage in rivers campaign) to keep attention on pressing environmental issues as we negotiate our exit from the EU and at least inherit but perhaps – hopefully – strengthen our environmental legislation.

If you can please circulate the blog on social media. This is the link: