A grassroots community group and registered charity to protect and champion the River Wye. More on our website.
Joined March 2021
- Tweets1.9K
- Following249
- Followers2.2K
- Likes491
A glimpse of our Monday. We travelled from the Wye Valley to Westminster to lobby our MPs and ask them to challenge the government’s proposed Poultry Growth Strategy. This plan is being dreamed up (nightmared up 🧟♂️) by Defra and the Big Chicken lobby without community engagement
We think other voices, local voices, need to be in the room when it comes to developing our national food strategy to ensure that it works for our food security, our farmers and the environment.
Thanks to @EllieChowns @LibDemDavid and @CatherineFookes for meeting with us.
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
MORE CHICKEN. SAME OLD SH💩T.
The Government wants to expand intensive poultry farming.
Their plan for all the extra waste? Good question.. 🤔
Our rivers are already choking on chicken poo.
Expanding intensive poultry units risks making a dire situation even worse.
So as the Labour party gathers for their autumn conference in Liverpool, we’ve been outside on the streets with a simple message:
📢 Serious about cleaning up our rivers? STOP the expansion of Big Chicken
Help spread the word. Sign & share the petition and tell the Government to #StopBigChicken 👉bit.ly/4w9IRGm
#BigChicken #RiverAction #RiverPollution #Labour
“It’s a plan for Big Chicken, written by Big Chicken, with government support. This is a recipe for disaster.”
New piece from @philip_ciwf takes aim at the government’s ‘poultry growth strategy’.
philiplymbery.com/what-big-c…
Chance to hear from our brilliant co-chair Nicola Cutcher on making the most of our wild and precious lives. On turning grief and despair into action on behalf of the living world.
Nicola will be giving the James Roose-Evans Memorial Lecture on Oct 10th:
sidneynolantrust.org/your-vi…
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
“If we leave the poultry industry in charge of our poultry strategy, it could grow as bloated and unhealthy as a Frankenchicken”, writes @NicolaCutcher
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
🐔 Who is shaping the government’s poultry strategy?
Defra says it wants to remove “barriers to growth” for the poultry sector.
But when Big Chicken has a seat at the table, whose interests are actually being put first??
Article by Nicola Cutcher:
tinyurl.com/2vxepyep
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
Why is our government cooking up a plan to grow the intensive poultry industry and putting Big Chicken in charge?
My latest for @prospect_uk
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
Thank you to everyone who has watched Big Chicken on @Netflix it’s in the Top 10 in multiple countries around the world
It pulls back the curtain on the industrial poultry industry, exposing its impacts
It’s a must-watch for anyone who wants to know how the fried chicken boom puts us, animals & the environment at risk
🐔 Read more: bit.ly/4w9wZnL
@CIWF_Global
Wildfires and drought. An endless summer.
Click on the link below and read our latest newsletter which includes footage and images of the River Wye after weeks of no rain.
Also news of our Ranunculus Project and how to get involved.
mailchi.mp/6d465fbd530f/gath…
Brilliant piece by @philip_ciwf about the Charter for the River Wye & its potential to change everything - if we can make these rights real.
philiplymbery.com/a-rivers-r…
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
A RIVER’S RIGHT TO BE A RIVER AND WHY IT MATTERS TO US ALL
From animal sentience to nature’s rights, a new idea is taking hold
Giving rights to animals and nature is a way to recognise that every breath we take, every drop we drink and every bite we eat comes from the living world
@ciwf
philiplymbery.com/a-rivers-r…
Friends of the River Wye retweeted
Hey @NandosUK... remember us? 👀
Industrial chicken farming is one of the biggest threats to our rivers. Millions of tonnes of chicken manure are polluting our waterways, fuelling algal blooms and choking the life out of our rivers.
If you buy around 30 million chickens a year - like Nando’s - the public deserves to know one thing:
💩 Where's all the muck going?
@NandosUK. @Tesco. @kfc. Every major chicken retailer.
🐔 Don't chicken out.
Show us your suppliers are managing their manure responsibly.
✍️ TAKE ACTION. Help stop Big Chicken from choking our rivers. 🔽🔽
SIGN THE PETITION: bit.ly/4w9IRGm
@TheJimMurray @ActivistAnglers
This is an image of the Wye in Hereford taken yesterday. Almost unrecognisable. A thin narrow channel with algae stained gravel beds either side. Some recovering ranunculus clinging on.
See our drone flights here:
friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/…
Why aren't Natural Resources Wales @NatResWales dealing with this pollution threat?
Two deer were spotted by one of our citizen scientists dumped in the Trothy near Dingestow and reported on the 9th July (see image).
They are still there.
A short film about our bacterial testing at The Warren, Hay-on-Wye with equipment provided by @RiverActionUK
Our first test 25/06/26 recorded a worryingly high level of E.Coli. over 3x the safe bathing limit.
We publish our results each week on our website. @SaveTheWye
⚠️ Alert: Our latest test at The Warren, Hay-on-Wye (25/06/2026) found 3,088 E.coli CFU - over 3x the safe bathing threshold (990 CFU) and the highest we've ever recorded at this site.
We'll be testing weekly on Thursdays.
Results: friendsoftheriverwye.org.uk/…
@RiverActionUK
The Rivers Wye & Usk once bloomed with water crowfoot (ranunculus). Today, much of it has gone.
We're delighted to be working with Save the River Usk on a Nature Networks Fund project to investigate its decline and help this vital river habitat recover.
@SaveTheWye
Latest news from the campaign to save the Wye. Rights of Nature, record temperatures and how to get involved, all on World Environment Day:
mailchi.mp/e4cff23b8b0c/gath…
