Welcome to the website of the Welsh Dee Trust. The Trust is a registered charity.

The objectives are to protect,  conserve, promote and enhance the River Dee and all its indigenous species of fish, animals , birds and plants . The Trust will where appropriate seek the rehabilitation of any species that is threatened or endangered.

The Trust will through education increase the knowledge of the public of the need and importance of a healthy river environment. The Trust will also highlight the need for proper water management.

Click here for our latest newsletter, May 2016.

Farmers need an effective means of protecting their crops from slugs. But traditional slug pellets contain the chemical metaldehyde, which can enter the watercourse and prove very difficult to remove.

That’s why we’re encouraging farmers to switch to slug pellets which use ferric phosphate – equally effective at killing slugs, but presenting no difficulties for water quality.

Grovsenor Farms, which grows over 2,000 hectares of crops in Chester, within the River Dee catchment, has switched to the ferric phosphate pellets, with great success.

To encourage more landowners to make the switch, we’re offering a 50% discount on purchase of the ferric phosphate pellets.