Funding success for barrier easement on two tributaries of the Irvine.
Great news for the Irvine catchment ART has now secured adequate funding to improve two barriers in the upper catchment. We managed to secure the necessary funding despite many rejections. Our thanks to East Ayrshire Renewable Energy Fund, Nineveh Trust, Darvel...Aerial surveys reveal historic and recent problems
Looking at rivers and burns from above can be revealing and help us to understand why certain problems occur. This video of the middle Girvan illustrates some but not all the problems we see. It was shot with our drone while looking for problems that we can rectify...Volunteers help on the Girvan
Once again we relied on volunteers to assist with riverbank restoration on the Girvan. Without volunteers, the Trust is really pushed to deliver this type of work with our limited staff. Anyway, today we were assisted by two students and a staff member from SRUC,...Water of Girvan Habitat Restoration Project – Volunteers Required!
Last year we secured grant funding from North Carrick Community Benefit Fund, D’Oyly Carte Charitable Fund, Girvan Salmon Fishery Board, a landowner and the Patagonia World Trout Initiative to continue our work stabilising eroding sections of river banks in an...Smolts rising and feeding on Grannom caddis
As normal in May, the Grannom hatch has commenced and this evening I watched smolts rising for these emerging caddis at Catrine on the Ayr. It is both fascinating and worrying as there are still hundreds of smolts in the voes but we are attempting to encourage them...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
