River Aire Care
River Aire Care is the headline project for our riverside conservation volunteers and is the “brand” that most practical volunteers will see us engaging under. Our volunteers have been caring for the River Aire since 2018. Their work helps make it a better place for people and wildlife.
It encompasses a wide range of habitat improvement, litter clearance and access improvement work across the upper and middle Aire (but primarily in the Bradford district). It also includes our annual Big Spring Clean Up with local groups along the river.
The work of our volunteers is extremely varied and takes place along the riverbank from Leeds to the top of the Aire valley. We improve access by caring for riverside footpaths, footbridges and urban pocket parks. Along the river, we use traditional countryside skills and green engineering knowledge to protect riverbanks from erosion and to care for hedges and riverside habitats like wet woodlands and floodable meadows. In Spring, as the flood waters drop we remove litter and debris from the riverbanks and tackle fly-tipping along the river.
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