What Are Wild Rivers?

We all have our own perception of what is a ‘wild river’.

The Wild Rivers coalition has agreed that a Wild River:

• Is isolated or remote;
• Runs through mostly indigenous, unmodified landscape;
• Has a natural riparian zone;
• Includes all rivers on conservation land;
• Flows freely;
• Has no abstractions;
• Is a healthy habitat for fish and other ecological life;
• Has high water quality.

A river can be wild in its entirety, or a smaller section of a river can be wild.