The Severn is Britain’s longest river, and its estuary has the second-highest tidal range in the world, a rise and fall of some fourteen metres that sends a genuine wave, the Severn bore, surging upstream against the current. The estuary’s vast mudflats, exposed and drowned twice a day, feed enormous numbers of wintering waterbirds, and the whole system is of international importance.
Inland lies a soft, prosperous country: the Cotswold limestone with its honey-coloured villages, the Somerset Levels, which are not really land but a drained wetland held below sea level by pumping, and Bristol, a city that grew rich on Atlantic trade and has spent the modern era reinventing itself as one of the greenest in Britain. The Levels flood, sometimes spectacularly, and the argument over whether to keep pumping or to let water back in is the sharpest land-use question in the region.
The organizations here defend the estuary against successive proposals to barrage it for tidal power, restore the peat and wetland of the Levels, where cranes now breed again after four centuries, and work on the rivers of a farming region where slurry and soil runoff remain stubborn problems.
Environmental Organizations in This Bioregion
47 organizations working across this landscape.
Avon Needs Trees
Creating new permanent woodland throughout the Bristol-Avon river catchment to fight the climate and ecological emergencies.
Better Planet Education
Creating a better future by inspiring young people to look after our world.
Biodynamic Association (UK)
To research, educate and promote knowledge of the Biodynamic concepts and methods initiated by Dr Rudolf Steiner for the betterment of farming, forestry and gardenin...
Blue Ventures Conservation
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to advancing t...
Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership
A zero carbon, nature-rich, socially just city and region where all our communities and nature thrive.
Bristol Zoological Society
A wildlife conservation charity delivering global field research, education and providing an inspirational visitor attraction.
Centre for Sustainable Energy
The charity supporting people and organisations across the UK to tackle the climate emergency and end the suffering caused by cold homes.
Climate Live
Driving a new demographic through the power of music to engage, educate and empower climate action solutions , linking global audiences directly to sustainable impac...
Deki
DEKI is an international development charity working in extremely remote, underserved areas of Togo, West Africa, bringing social and ecological sustainability.
Earth Building UK and Ireland
EBUKI has an ambitious vision to ensure earth is part of all building by 2035. Policy (standards, regulations); skills & education; circular economy.
Energy Sparks
Energy Sparks’ vision is a sustainable future in which the school community is at the heart of measurable action to tackle climate change. We equip children and youn...
Farm Wilder CIC
We promote food from British farms with exceptional wildlife and work with them to enhance sustainability and biodiversity.
FRANK Water Projects
Our vision is of a global water system where everyone, everywhere can access safe drinking water, toilets and good hygiene. Our work is centered around SDG6.
Heal Rewilding
Heal is raising money to buy land in England for rewilding, to support nature recovery, climate change action and wellbeing.
heart of bs13
DEVELOPING OUR PROGRAMMES USING A STRONG EVIDENCE-BASE In 2020/21, Heart of BS13 invested time and resources into gathering two large data sets to inform the directi...
National Trust
We’re Europe’s biggest conservation charity and we look after nature, beauty and history for everyone to enjoy.
Onboard.earth
onboard:earth is a live events industry response to the climate crisis.
One Home Climate Solutions
One Home Climate Solutions is an education charity. Our mission is to help UK households adapt to a low cost, low carbon lifestyle and extreme weather events. We ins...
One Planet Matters CIC
We work to create environmental and social change through a range of community networks and initiatives
Plantlife International
The global voice for wild plants and fungi.
Protect Earth CIO
We create, restore, and expand woodlands, hedgerows, wildflower meadows, and remove invasive species, to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises.
Rainforest Concern
Rainforest Concern protects threatened natural habitats and the biodiversity they contain, together with the indigenous people who depend on them for survival.
Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect works alongside farming families in rural Africa, empowering them through sustainable agriculture.
Social Farms & Gardens
Social Farms & Gardens is a UK-wide charity that supports almost 3,000 land-based community groups to farm, garden and grow together.
Somerset Wildlands
Rewilding the Somerset Levels. Making space for nature and people.
St Werburghs City Farm
Small charity in Bristol delivering big impact for nature. We provide urban green space, environmental education and support for disadvantaged local people.
Sustainable Food Trust
The mission of the SFT is to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems, inspired by our philosophy of the interconnectedness of the health of soil, plant...
Sustainable Soils Alliance
Working to address the climate emergency by restoring our soils within a generation.
Swindon Children's Scrapstore
Temwa
Our mission is to help create thriving, inclusive, sustainable and self-reliant communities throughout Northern Malawi, able to articulate and pursue their needs ind...
The Atlas Foundation
Providing children with a chance to thrive
The Bristol Gulls
The Bristol Gulls is a team of four women taking on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020, the world's toughest rowing race, to raise awareness of plastic...
The Cycle
A Circular Economy using Agriculture, Biochar and Carbon Credits – The ABC!
The Reef World Foundation
The Reef-World Foundation is a coral reef conservation charity taking direct action working with the tourism industry to reduce damage to marine ecosystems.
The Soil Association
The Soil Association is the charity joining forces with nature for a better future. A world with good health, in balance with nature, and a safe climate.
Trash Hero UK
Our mission is to create a world free from plastic pollution, using simple but effective ways to engage people with the principles and practice of zero waste
Tree Aid
We work with people across the drylands of Africa to grow trees and restore land, to fight poverty and the effects of the climate crisis.
TreeSisters
TreeSisters works ethically to reforest and restore our planet while advocating for nature and reconnecting us to our roots.
Vision 21 Gloucestershire
We are a small but highly active charity working across Gloucestershire empowering communities to engage with practical projects that support people & planet.
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
Sustrans work for and with communities, helping them walk, wheel and cycle to create healthier places and happier lives for everyone
Whale and Dolphin Conservation UK
The leading global charity protecting whales and dolphins, working collaboratively worldwide to prevent harm and to address the many threats they face.
Wildscreen
Wildscreen envisions a world where natural world storytelling is inclusive, accessible and impactful and where nature is protected and thriving.
Windmill Hill City Farm
A community charity growing connections between people, animals, and nature.
Your Park Bristol and Bath
Using parks as a platform for nature recovery, health and community connection across Bristol and Bath.