The Environment Agency and the UK government failed to protect the River Wye from catastrophic decline by allowing pollution from industrial chicken farming to saturate the land and devastate the protected river, a legal challenge argues.
Campaigners including Feargal Sharkey protested on Wednesday outside the high court in Cardiff where the judicial review brought by the group River Action is being heard. River Action says a loophole in the law is allowing poultry waste from 25 million chickens intensively farmed in the catchment to poison the Wye.
