STREAM - River Avon cSAC: demonstrating strategic restoration and management

The overall project objective was to demonstrate the restoration of the River Avon Site of Community Interest (SCI) to favourable conservation status through a catchment approach, and to integrate the management of the SCI with the adjacent Avon Valley Special Protection Area (SPA). The project met its specific objectives by implementing restoration works and demonstrating a range of traditional and new techniques in different river habitats; Disseminating project experience to a range of local, national and EU audiences, working with the UKRRC and Living River; Producing best practice guidance on sluice operation, distributed to relevant landowners and operators in the SAC; Publishing ditch management and fish exclusion measures and dissemination to relevant landowners in the SPA; Improving stakeholder and public appreciation of the sites and species through use of a project website, workshops, leaflets, posters, media publicity, open days, sign and display boards and layman’s reports.