The River Lugg is home to six protected and endangered species, including common otter, Atlantic salmon, white clawed crayfish, brook lamprey, shad and bullhead.
It flows into the River Wye, and in 1995 it was made a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
The farmer admitted using bulldozers and diggers to remove gravel from a mile-long stretch of the river by his farm in 2020 and 2021.
At the trial, Natural England described the damage as the “worst case of riverside destruction” seen by the organisation.
As part of his sentence, Price was ordered to re-plant trees and restore the riverbed and banks, with the Environment Agency and Natural England overseeing his work.
We visited the site with Herefordshire ecologist Richard Fishbourne, to see how the restoration project was going.
Fishbourne is an environmental designer who helps communities to restore natural spaces and work with wildlife.
“There’s no sign of life, there’s nothing in the water here now,” he said.
“It takes tens of years, decades, to build up this wonderful community of species and habitat and it can all be destroyed in a moment.
“It’s going to take 20 or 30 years to come back to anywhere near the extent that it was.”