Male Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) – Photo courtesy André Karwath. Click to enlarge… Used under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License
One of the UK’s rarest types of wildlife habitat will be expanded following
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River Wear in Durham.
More than half (52 per cent) of people questioned would not swim in their local river because they think it is too polluted. That was the shocking finding from a survey carried out for the Blueprint for Water, a coalition of leading conservation groups.
The survey, carried out by ComRes, also found 97 per cent of people in England recognise that rivers,
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