Chalkstreams.org is run by Charles Rangeley-Wilson OBE – a writer and conservationist with a lifelong passion for rivers and most of all for chalk-streams.
Charles caught the chalk-stream bug and became interested in river restoration in the early 1990s when working as a teacher in Dorset. He founded the Wild Trout Society in 1997 which went on to become the Wild Trout Trust.
He has worked with WWF UK on various campaigns and reports including Rivers on the Edge , the 2014 State of England’s Chalk Streams and Flushed Away the report that exposed the neglected state of the UK sewage treatment infrastructure.
In 2011 he co-founded the Norfolk Rivers Trust with sponsorship from WWF and Coca Cola wrote The River Nar Catchment Restoration Strategy.
In 2014 he received the Bernard Venables Award for wild trout conservation. Charles is also an Angling Trust ambassador and a Vice President of the Wye and Usk Foundation.
Since 2020 he has chaired the national CABA Chalk Streams Restoration Group.
On June 2nd 2022 Charles was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for ‘services to chalk stream conservation’.
He is currently working on two Landscape Recovery reports covering the chalk streams north-west Norfolk.
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