Freshwater Biological Association secures major grant for the Riverfly Partnership citizen science programme.

The Freshwater Biological Association (FBA)has recently developed and secured a £300,000 grant to develop the Riverfly Partnership nationally over the next three years. The grant has been awardedby Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and will enable the Riverfly Partnership to build upon its strengths and establish a sustainable strategy to meet the future needs of the national monitoring programme. The Riverfly Partnership is one of the largest citizen science projects in the world, monitoring river water quality using the standardised Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (RMI) method to check a key subset of riverflies within English rivers.

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