What Happens to Rivers When Farmers Don't Listen?

The wye valley is a very good example, because in um u pois and herefordshire alone, the councils have given permission for chicken factories. I mean, they call them bonds, but they're actually huge, great ste el factories with tens of thousands of chickens crammed into each one housing 20 million birds. The result has been the remarkably rapid transformation of that stunning, treasured, he ighly protected river into little more than an open sewer. Water croft is for rivers like the y what mangroves are to tropical seas. It it's the breeding ground and the nursery and the shelter for a huge range of it's life. You lose that. You lose the