By Bethany Rossiter During this very strange and testing year, stress and anxiety have become a challenge for many during our day to day lives. It is well understood that taking time out to embrace nature can be an effective way of dealing with stress, helping us to relax and feel calm(1). The Cober valley,…
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By Bethany Rossiter Following the planting of 300 native trees at Penrose Stream at the end of January last year, further tree planting has taken place on the sides of the Cober Valley, near Helston. Over two days (Thursday 14th and Thursday 21st November 2019), 531 trees were planted on the streamside edge of…
By Bethany Rossiter A new information board for visitors to the Cober valley and the Loe Pool has been completed and is now on display at the Coronation park. It is located on the western side of the boating lake, next to the river Cober. The board was put together through South Kerrier Alliance…
By Bethany Rossiter Higher than normal temperatures experienced earlier this year, may have contributed to the return of blanket weed on parts of Loe Pool this summer. The largest area of this blanket weed has been observed in Carminowe Creek, with it blanketing the rocks on the lake bed, and growing up to 20m from…
“A partnership approach to dealing with this potentially high risk site in a high risk location has enabled us to understand the issues and site conditions, and then deliver a benign solution that provides valuable water quality, risk management and wildlife benefits. This is a great example of the benefits of the Loe Pool Forum,…
NatureWatch are a wildlife documentary society run by students from Falmouth University and the University of Exeter. NatureWatch have collaborated with Loe Pool Forum to produce a film which captures the story of the Pool. After months of work, we are very excited to be able to share the film!
Any day that has been filled with wildlife, walks, friends and ends with a National Trust hot chocolate can be agreed upon as a pretty good day! But this wasn’t just a group of friends looking for a break from university. Four fellow students and I spent a wonderful late November day making a film…
By Bethany Rossiter On a typical wet and rainy winter’s day, National Trust Conservation Volunteers teamed up with Cornwall Wildlife Trust Wild Cober volunteers on January 31st, working very hard to plant 300 trees in an area of land at the bottom of a sloping field at Lower Lanner. The purpose of getting soaked to…
Possibly the starkest, and most disappointing, result of the 2015 ECON Fisheries Survey and Review of Loe Pool was that, for the first time in all the surveys that have been carried out on the Pool, there was no recording of a brown trout in Loe Pool. Although the survey does not provide incontrovertible evidence…
By Bethany Rossiter Water pollution in rivers can become a major hazard to the environment, ecosystems and humans if not dealt with quickly and in the correct manner. In many cases, the public often are the first to notice a pollution incident, and therefore public reports of water pollution become key to keeping on top…
By Bethany Rossiter The numbers of invasive Himalayan Balsam weed have begun to fall, thanks to the hard work of volunteers, who worked over a period of two weeks to remove every trace of Himalayan Balsam they could find. Himalayan Balsam was introduced into the UK during the 19th century, but now has become…
By Bethany Rossiter A very sunny Thursday 17th May played host to another successful ‘Loe Pool Make-a-Difference’ day, which saw groups of volunteers from Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s ‘Wild Cober’ group and Penrose volunteers, work together to help maintain the strapwort site on Carminowe Creek. This work, which has been funded by the Whitley Wildlife Conservation…
By Bethany Rossiter Following a successful volunteers day on Thursday 5th April, the Loe Pool Forum, along with its partner organisations, are looking for eager volunteers to take part in a series of practical days over the rest of this coming year. These days will be based on themes such as removing Himalayan balsam, leaky…
Supervised by Kate Smith, at CGES, Bethany Rossiter (BSc Geography at the University of Exeter) investigated the correlation between the increase in tree cover area in the Cober valley, and a decrease in the size of peak flow levels in the river Cober over time. This aim was investigated through looking at the growth of the Cober valley…
Soils are essential for human wellbeing, providing important services including carbon storage and food security. Therefore understanding human impact on the flow of sediment and organic matter from soils to inland waters is important both for climate change mitigation and to protect water quality. In 2017 a team of researchers from Exeter University, Cranfield University,…
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