UK Rivers Network Environmental organization campaigning on river issues throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and North Ireland. The UK Rivers Network is based on a simple idea: we try to bring people together to protect the riverenvironment across the UK and Ireland—not for any special interest group or activity but for its own sake. Like nature itself, the community of people working on river issues in the UK is large, diverse, and fluid so we decided, early on, not to try to wrestle with it, manage it, or speak for it. Thats not how nature works and its not how we should work with nature. Instead of forming a membership organization with rules and structure and rigid, topdown organization, we decided to become a loose, bottomup umbrella of a network like a happy tent where friends with similar ideas could meet up or a magazine read by likeminded people. We work informally; like a river, were guided along a fairly welldefined course by our objectives, but we flow and change all the time so we hopefully never stagnate. For those who find this kind of thing too informal, there are plenty of groups you can join with more order and structure. Most of our efforts are now focused around this website. If you follow the site or contribute to it and if you share our broad objectives, youre part of what were doing and part of the network. Simple as that.

Website: http://www.ukrivers.net/