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The Clyde River Foundation is a registered charity which researches the ecology of the Clyde and its tributaries and promotes environmental education throughout the catchment. Founded in 1999, the Clyde River Foundation aims to improve understanding of all aspects of river management, and in particular to provide a permanent, professional fisheries science presence in the Clyde catchment. In addit

ion to biological surveying and research, we deliver a range of educational programmes including Clyde in the Classroom, a hands-on project using the life history of the brown/sea trout to promote awareness of river ecology in primary schools - see http://www.clydeintheclassroom.com/ for more info!

Big day for us. Our Laura returning to her Primary School as a working scientist! Closing the loop after completing Cly...
08/06/2026

Big day for us.

Our Laura returning to her Primary School as a working scientist! Closing the loop after completing Clyde in the Classroom more than a decade ago.

Delivering our first contribution to the Glasgow’s Lost Rivers project with P6 from Crookfur Primary School.

We’ve known the Capelrig Burn has a good head of brown trout for some time and it was great to show them to our at first hand.

Our urban burns are always worth a look!

World Environment Day with St Catherine’s Primary School, Paisley.Lots of prospective scientists and yesterday.
06/06/2026

World Environment Day with St Catherine’s Primary School, Paisley.

Lots of prospective scientists and yesterday.

05/06/2026

We spent World Environment Day with Primary 6 of St Catherine’s Primary School in Paisley.

This is the biodiversity they discovered at first hand from the River Gryfe in Houston. There’s a lot going on in that bucket!

This is part of our long-running ‘Flying Fish’ project which introduces biological monitoring of river health to young people. We’ve left their chatter on the soundtrack…

Clyde in the Classroom and Beyond…We spent the day putting the final touches to our poster for Saturday’s Glasgow Natura...
03/06/2026

Clyde in the Classroom and Beyond…

We spent the day putting the final touches to our poster for Saturday’s Glasgow Natural History Society conference.

Kirsty and Toby doing all of the heavy lifting today.

Over the last 26 years, our education programme has been delivered by 30 different scientists and has engaged with 57,558 young people from 555 different schools (some of which have now closed).

We have now worked with 84% of the 557 Primary Schools across the eight local authority areas of the River Clyde catchment.

We are very grateful to all of our sponsors who have helped us get this far! We now have around 50 Primary Schools still to reach in our catchment.

Let us know if you are interested in partnering with us to ‘complete the set’!

Contact us:

[email protected]

Clyde in the Classroom 2027 booking is now open!We wrote to all Clyde catchment Primary School Head Teachers last week w...
03/06/2026

Clyde in the Classroom 2027 booking is now open!

We wrote to all Clyde catchment Primary School Head Teachers last week with a project summary and joining form.

As of this morning, we’ve filled 25% of available places so, if you want your class to be part of the 27th consecutive year of the project, don’t delay!

Against all the odds (and just look at them!) we extended the known range of Clyde salmon today. We wonder where some of...
02/06/2026

Against all the odds (and just look at them!) we extended the known range of Clyde salmon today.

We wonder where some of these pollutants originate?

Old Patrick Water above and below the M8.

Have we just given up on these urban burns? Dreadful, really.

Turns out it’s Wild Salmon Day!While the return of Atlantic salmon to the Clyde is a real ‘good news’ story, we reckon t...
01/06/2026

Turns out it’s Wild Salmon Day!

While the return of Atlantic salmon to the Clyde is a real ‘good news’ story, we reckon they have recolonised only 40% of their pre-extinction range across the river catchment.

There’s still a lot to do however, principally barrier removal, water quality improvement and instream and bankside habitat enhancements.

It’s a big shopping list but today, as for most of the last 24 summers, we’re out trying to make things better.

Salmon need free access from the sea and cold, clean water to complete their freshwater life-cycle.

Still work to do on this Clyde tributary…


23/05/2026

Trust the process!

At some stage, every working biologist has to identify the animal or plant they are studying. Everything else in the trade comes from that.

Traditionally, people called taxonomists have put together guides to help us with identifying our critters.

We call these ‘keys’ and they are basically a series of questions, like a puzzle, which lead us to a reasonably well-informed conclusion to the question ‘What does that look like?’

Here, we have two of our ‘Future Stewards’ following the Field Studies Council key to freshwater invertebrates and deciding that the animal they are looking at has six jointed legs.

They will ultimately conclude it is a flattened mayfly nymph and record it as such.

This is the basis for a lot of our scientific work monitoring the health of our rivers by looking at what lives in them.

Listen to the learning…

It’s been a busy week. Some random images before we head into the bank holiday.Wishing all teachers and support staff a ...
22/05/2026

It’s been a busy week.

Some random images before we head into the bank holiday.

Wishing all teachers and support staff a peaceful weekend!

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