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River Action has revealed its expansion plan and announced that a fundraising drive brought in £314,000

According to a Guardian investigation, a significant contract to supply poultry to Tesco from over ten years ago may be responsible for the ecological decline of one of the UK's favorite rivers.

The River Wye flows through Herefordshire where bird numbers – and their waste – surged in the year after the supermarket signed a deal with a local processor, Guardian investigation shows

Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste ‘The River Wye is covered by every possible conservation law, but in just a few years it has spiralled towards complete ecological collapse.’ Photograph: Pepkats Images/Alamy Stock Photo ‘The River Wye is covered by every possible conservation law, but in just a few years it has spiralled towards complete ecological collapse.’ Photograph: Pepkats Images/Alamy Stock Photo Wed 21 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 21 Jul 2021 12.52 EDT There’s more...

The first time I encountered an intensive “chicken shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the huge industrial-looking metal clad building was well over 100 metres long by 25 metres wide. And there wasn’t just one, there were seven of these colossal sheds, the sun glinting off their roofs and adjacent clusters of tall silos. A constant hum emanated from them and periodically a strange clattering sound, possibly of grain being sprayed automatically from a silo into a shed. There was a large, immaculately clean concrete yard and an almost uncanny lack of human act...