Volunteers to help tackle non-native invasive plants in East Lancashire

Using an extra £15,000 of funding received from DEFRA, the Ribble Rivers Trust is offering specialist training to volunteers to help clear local waterways and paths of the non-native invasive weeds Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam and giant hogweed. Adam Walmsley, the trust’s invasive species officer, said: ‘The Calder catchment area is quite heavily infested with these non-native species so this will be quite a big undertaking.’