The River Teifi is dying
- Sewage and chemicals are polluting our river and not enough is being done to stop it. The Teifi has been the lifeblood of our area for centuries - it is madness that this desecration has been permitted to happen. Click this link for a Video on Pollution in the Teifi Marshes.
- See the About page for our Aims & Objectives and information on the Key pollution Issues. Also see our New leaflet here.
- More information can be found in the First Meeting Report and on the Main Resources and News pages. See Latest Meeting Report here.
- Other Meeting Reports - See them on this Link
- Recent activity - See this link
Our Rescue Plan - See our Actions list:
- Join our Friends of the Teifi group; Volunteer for Citizen Science activities in the Teifi Catchment: Go to this link Citizen Science and email volunteer@teifi.one. The latest StT Citizen Science results can be found on this page.
- Respect our river. Find out About it, Visit it, learn its History, take children to play by it, share photos. (See Gallery - for a birds eye view of the length of the Teifi). Report problems to NRW and Welsh Water
- The responsibility for pollution, rivers and water lies with the Welsh Government. Write to them urging them so save our river.
- Sign appropriate petitions (e.g.s SavetheTeifi, RiverActionUK, SAS, Greenpeace, Change.org)
- Start Monitoring the Teifi and its Tributaries - Use an App on your phone to record information in the field to send to the West Wales Rivers Trust. Join an Adopt a Tributary Group: contact Nathaniel James of the Teifi Restoration Project if you wish to join in.
- Contrbute to national causes eg: Good Law Project
Here is a wonderful article about the Teifi and some of its history, current problems and work being done to help
Afon Teifi RIVER OF THE MONTH | Afonydd Cymru
A Video Created by Lucy Gamblin:
Demonstrator catchment project for water quality improvement on the River Teifi.
The project will pursue integrated catchment approaches to form a multisector co-operation and adopt nature based solutions.
See NRW Evidence Report here (23 Mar 25) here
New Scientist Explains many of the pollution problems on the River Teifi
Teifi Marshes: The Welsh wetlands at risk from accumulated river pollutants:
Teifi Marshes sits at the mouth of the river Teifi near Cardigan Bay, Wales. And it's here where upstream pollutants accumulate in the wetlands. "We are beginning to see the impacts of things happening further upstream on the reserve", says Nathan Walton, who works for the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales managing the Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve. The site has been badly affected by intensive farming practices in the past decade from increased slurry runoff, chemicals, and plastic pollutants. Much of this is down to the economic realities of food production increasing pressure on land use. “The only way things are going to change,” he says, “is if we, as a society, learn to pay a bit more for our food and give farmers a better return for what they are producing,” says Walton. “As a conservationist, I would love to revert back to the old practices, where you had smaller farms, small fields, managed less intensively and more sustainably.”
