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Jill Sutton and Marco Rebora, of the Teifi River Clean group. NEWCASTLE Emlyn residents are organising a large clean-up along the River Teifi on Sunday, June 20, at 1pm. Following the flooding of the River Teifi, earlier this year, locals were appalled at the huge amount of plastic litter strewn along its banks of their beautiful river. A walk revealed numerous multi-coloured rubble bags, black silage wrapping and other litter caught up on bushes and trees. “The Teifi is not a public toilet, tip or dustbin!” said Marco Rebora, who lives alongside. “It is an artery to the sea and very soon there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.”
AN ENVIRONMENTAL endeavour to monitor the health of the River Nevern from its source near the Frenni Fawr, to the sea at Newport has been launched by the Growing Better Connections project. The CLEAN (Catchment Level Environmental Action Network) project aims to respond to the challenge of restoring and enhancing healthy habitats in and along Pembrokeshire s rivers. A network of nature conservation and community organisations has been formed to deliver this work - including Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, West Wales Rivers Trust, Pembrokeshire Nature Partnership, Newport Area Environment Group, Community Councils and Nevern Anglers. Between February and March over 20 volunteers, from those organisations and from among the riverside communities in the area, will be taking water samples and collecting observational survey data to establish baseline information about the river s current state of ecological health.