Thames Salmon School at Wild Salmon Connections Event – January 2025.
An inspirational end to our pilot Thames Salmon School project, at Day 1 of the Wild Salmon Connections event at Fishmongers Hall, London, organised by The Missing Salmon Alliance. The event was an international wild salmon conservation in partnership with likeminded organisations across the northern hemisphere, and hosted by Irish broadcaster, Ella McSweeney.
All 3 days of this knowledge packed and highly informative event can be viewed on YouTube, to view the conference.
Wild salmon are in crisis. The event had an impressive range of organisations, communities and individual speakers demonstrating that salmon matter. They are a keystone species, they have a huge environmental, social and economic value and the need for support, partnership working and policy work is clear to to ensure wild salmon have a future.
Two students from each participating school, teachers, parents and project officers that worked with the schools, our CEO, Administrator and Senior Partnership Officer attended Day 1 along with approximately 200 delegates.
Three students had the honour of taking part in the opening of the conference and sharing an important message to the delegates, that salmon and their environments need protecting now.
The Salmon School is the brainchild of international environmental artist Joseph Rossano. Thames Rivers Trust is thrilled to be the lead partner of The Thames Salmon School collaboration, working with The Salmon School, The Missing Salmon Alliance, The Atlantic Salmon Trust and 6 Rivers Trusts – Action for the River Kennet, South East Rivers Trust, Thames 21, River Thame Conservation Trust, Cotswolds Rivers Trust and The Rivers Trust to run the project for 5 primary schools between September 2024 – February 2025.
