Conservation Award Winners 2013

Over 100 guests attended a Wild Trout Trust evening at the Savile Club in Mayfair to present the annual awards for the best trout habitat conservation projects. The evening was introduced by WTT Director, Shaun Leonard, with the awards presented by Richard Aylard of Thames Water, who generously sponsor the Conservation Awards. 

The Conservation Awards recognise and encourage excellence in the management and conservation of wild trout habitat, celebrating the efforts, skills and ingenuity of projects carried out both by professionals and by grass roots voluntary organisations.

This annual competition is often hard-fought and the 2013 entries amply lived up to this reputation.

The winners are:

Professional Project: Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust 

Amateur Project: Pickering Fisheries Association

Best Partnership Project: Action for the River Kennet (ARK)

Runners up to the awards were:

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust & Environment Agency

Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project

Hillington Fly Fishing Syndicate

The full judges report is available here