The Flow Country Rivers Trust

Welcome

Please take a look around our website to find out about the Flow Country, the rivers, and the work of the Trust.

The Flow Country Rivers Trust is an environmental charity dedicated to the conservation of freshwater species of fish within the Flow Country, and the associated fauna and flora. The bedrock of the Trust’s work is scientific research.

The Trust aims to encourage, expedite and contribute to the combined effort to preserve the Flow Country’s ecosystem, using its special knowledge of the northern river catchments and their fisheries.

When the Trust was established in 2014 relatively little scientific information was available for these rivers. Since then, major strides have been made by the Caithness and Northern District Salmon Fishery Boards, the Environmental Research Institute in Thurso and by the Trust itself. As a result, our overall understanding of the rivers catchments is now incomparably better than previously, and the process of refining and extending this knowledge as well as investigating new areas of relevance continues.

The Trust is a small organisation and much of its work is carried out in collaboration with other conservation bodies. On occasions, when resources permit, it can respond nimbly to matters of relevance on its own, and when it does so the Trust commits to consolidating its findings in technical reports posted on this website as a permanent record for the wider community.

We have a friends and donations page if you would like to support our work. If you would like to find out more please get in touch.