NIEL FWTF Priorities
Vision:
Northern Ireland’s freshwater ecosystems are thriving, resilient, and sustainably managed
Priorities for 2025
- Advocate for full implementation of the Water Framework Directive at water body level across all catchments
- Promote responsible water use in all development planning
- Making the case for and demonstrating how Nature Based Solutions can become mainstreamed
- Advocate for long-term solution for wastewater infrastructure
- Advocate for and demonstrate effective support for farmers and other land managers/ users to deliver a healthy freshwater environment
- Promote integrated and coordinated water management across all departments and sectors in law, policy and practice
- Promote and facilitate public participation and education in relation to freshwater ecosystems (engagement in policy making, citizen science, public awareness)
Members of the Freshwater Task Force are:
- Friends of the Earth NI;
- National Trust NI;
- Northern Ireland Marine Task Force;
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds NI;
- The Rivers Trust;
- SWAN Ireland;
- Surfers Against Sewage;
- Ulster Angling Federation;
- Ulster Wildlife;
- Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust; and
- Woodland Trust
For further information on the work of the Freshwater Task Force, contact:
Contact:
Bróna McNeill
Northern Ireland Environment Link
22-24 Lombard Street
Belfast
BT1 1RD
Email: brona@nienvironmentlink.org
Links
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- Friends of the Earth NI
- Habitas
- Lough Neagh and Lower Bann Advisory Committee
- Lough Neagh Partnership
- NetRegs
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Rivers Agency
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- The Rivers Trust
- Ulster Angling Federation
- Wildfowl and Wetland Trust
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