The Wildlife Trusts says the supermarket giant will attend its meeting on 17 July.
The health of the river has been updated this year to "unfavourable declining" because of a deterioration in key wildlifeTesco has agreed to a meeting to discuss the ongoing deterioration of the River Wye, a conservation group says.
It comes after a supermarket shareholder and Herefordshire Wildlife Trust member called for the supermarket to take action at its AGM.The BBC has approached the supermarket giant for comment.say intensive farming and sewage pollutionThe Wildlife Trusts, a federation of the country's 46 wildlife trusts, argue supermarket supply chains need to bear responsibility for much of the pollution.
There are 24 million chickens being farmed in the river's catchment at any one time, according to data from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England.Tesco is a customer of Avara, which processes two million chickens each week at its factory in Hereford.that suppliers are having on the river by 2025 and says it has reduced the amount of manure produced by suppliers' farms by 30% since the start of the year.
But wildlife campaigners have pledged to attend supermarket AGMs to press them to take further action to insist suppliers' practices change. During Friday's meeting, campaigner Richard Tyler asked Tesco CEO Ken Murphy to meet with The Wildlife Trusts.Other supermarkets have also been formally invited to the roundtable meeting, according to the trusts.
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