RIPPLE
RIPPLE, which stands for Rivers Involving People, Places and Leading by Example, is a community-based project that will help manage and conserve the Ballinderry River.
With its source high in the Sperrins, the Ballinderry winds its way through Co Tyrone to Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the UK.
It is home to many unique and endangered species including the freshwater pearl mussel, Dollaghan trout, otter and Atlantic salmon, and supports business, tourism and leisure activities in and around the Cookstown area.
RIPPLE is a WWF project run in partnership with Ballinderry Fish Hatchery Ltd and jointly funded by Heritage Lottery Fund.
On the river this season
Life abounds during the fresh mornings and long warm evenings of the summer.
Events - get involved
Everyone living near the river is being encouraged to get involved in protecting and conserving it.
Geoff Nuttall, Head of WWF-NI interview on BBC's Your Place and Mine.
Listen below.
BBC Radio 4's Open Country visits the Ballinderry
Helen Mark and crew legged it across the Irish Sea to visit the beautiful Ballinderry and find out for themselves about the stir RIPPLE is causing across the UK.
Listen below to Helen's programme, broadcast in December 2009.
Mark Horton - July 2010 Podcast
Mark Horton, RIPPLE Project Coordinator gives WWF the latest update from the Ballinderry Fish Hatchery in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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