Photo: London Rivers Week
London’s rivers have benefitted from a transformation of around 62 kilometers of waterways restored since 2000 through initiatives such as wetland creation and reedbed installation, say the organisers of London Rivers Week 2025. River restoration initiatives include projects such as adding wood material to a river to ‘naturalise’ it, removing concrete barriers from its banks, or reconnecting a river to its floodplain. The rewilding efforts benefit the environment and communities, through collaborative projects such as ‘Rewilding the Rom’, which reconnected the River Rom in Dagenham, East London, to its floodplain and created a new wetland for people and wildlife to enjoy, and the River Ravensbourne in Bromley which installed cobbles and gravel on the riverbed to enhance fish passage.
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