Our Vision

Our Vision is to achieve:

“A resilient River Dart that is in excellent ecological health, supporting increasing wildlife, better quality of life for people and communities, and a sustainable local economy.”

Our Mission for 2025-30 is:

“To bring people together to deliver a coherent programme of actions that significantly improve the condition of the River Dart over the next ten years.”

The Principles that guide our activities are:

• the river is a vitally important ecosystem that is under immense pressure; it needs urgent action to improve its condition and ensure its long-term protection
• our scope includes the whole catchment, from source to sea, via the estuary; and our focus is on actions across the catchment that will deliver our vision for the River Dart
• we need a holistic, partnership-based catchment-scale approach to address the multiple challenges faced by the river
• we need a dynamic and adaptive plan that embeds monitoring and evaluation and is responsive to rapidly-changing pressures and emerging opportunities
• the national and global issues of biodiversity loss and climate change are being felt on the River Dart and are primary drivers of our work
• the highest possible standards of water quality should be achieved and maintained for wildlife and for people.