Name: The Future’s in Our Hands: Reclaiming our rivers
Start: 2026-06-06T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-06T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Room LMB/030, Law and Sociology Building

$The Future\u2019s in Our Hands: Reclaiming our rivers$

Join experts to decode the chemicals in our waterways and learn actionable steps to restore the health of our rivers.
About this Event

Speakers: Adam Ashman, Amy-Jane Beer, Alistair Boxall, John Lawton, Rachael Maskell and Marie Taylor

Antibiotics, cosmetics, insecticides, and herbicides: our rivers are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day. But the story doesn't have to end there. Join our panel of experts as they decode the chemical cocktail in our waterways and share actionable steps we can all take to restore the health of our rivers.

Speakers include environmental scientist Alistair Boxall of the University of York, a past member of the Defra Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee, who leads NERC-funded ECOMIX project which is exploring chemical pollution in Yorkshire’s rivers; eminent ecologist Sir John Lawton, a Vice-President of RSPB and a past President of the British Ecological Society and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust; Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central; Marie Taylor, CEO of the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, which conserves, protects, rehabilitates and improves the rivers, streams and watercourses in the Dales; Adam Ashman, Head of Partnerships and Sustainability at Yorkshire Water; and author, biologist, naturalist and campaigner Amy-Jane Beer, who is President of the National Park Society Friends of the Dales.

This event is part of the Festival Focus ‘’. You may also be interested in the exhibition ‘’ which is taking place throughout the Festival.

Image credit: William Joshua Templeton

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