A team of 17 unemployed Luton volunteers have improved their prospects and a local green space by joining a course in Luton's Leagrave Park. Read more ...

A group of local volunteers have worked hard to improve the habitat of the River Lea over the last year. Read more ...

The Luton Lea is the section of the River Lea from Houghton Regis, Lewsey and Leagrave Park to Luton Hoo Lakes. This guide introduces six sites where schools can easily access the River and/ or its tributaries, provides key information on access and safety along with some suggested activities at each site. Read more ...

The next meeting of the Lower Lea Catchment Partnership will be 16th November 2016, 7pm at Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3GP. Read more ...

Catchment Hosts, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust held the first ever River Lea Catchment Conference on the evening of 19th October. Read more ...

An exciting new project has just been launched to connect young people to the River Lea in Luton and Central Bedfordshire. The Junior River Wardens programme is a citizen science project which will engage 16 schools and four youth or uniformed groups in the Luton Lea catchment area to monitor the River Lea and its tributaries. Read more ...

Places are still available on the last Riverfly training course of 2016 which will be held on Saturday 15 October at Digswell (near Welwyn Garden City) in Hertfordshire. Read more ...

HMWT, the Environment Agency and Queen Mary University London are seeking volunteers who would be interested in being trained to conduct the new Modular River Surveys. Read more ...

Slimy Wrigglers was featured on page 2 in the Hertfordshire Mercury on 22/09/2016. Read more ...

A cutting edge bird-tagging project using GPS tags has tracked a green sandpiper, a small wading bird, from Hertfordshire all the way to Norway and back. Read more ...