Saltmarsh Restoration in Progress

Throughout March 2025 the Saltmarsh Project team will be trialling a range of restoration approaches at the upper fringe of the Dart Estuary shores, around Totnes and Stoke Gabriel. Ambios' Nature Recovery trainees and local people have been making bundles of hazel and willow to support this hands-on restoration work. The bundles (called brushwood faggots) will be staked across eroded gullies in small areas of saltmarsh. The intention is to slow the flow of the tidal water, trap silt and hopefully give the valuable saltmarsh a chance to regenerate. The team is also exploring the kind of health indicators we need for our estuarine ecosystems that can be monitored both by experts and citizens, and how interested members of the community can stay connected to each other and the saltmarshes beyond the life of the Project.

If you would like to get involved with the Saltmarsh Project, there is a free Community Workshop on November 11th - book tickets here.

Read more about the Saltmarsh Project here.

Bioregional Leaning Centre's Isabel Carlise gave a talk to a previous Ambios trainee cohort about the Project, one of the trainees wrote about it here.

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