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Primrose Valley Holiday Park Entrance, Filey.

Protected species almost held up Filey holiday park development
A protected population of great crested newts nearly derailed plans for a development at one of the Yorkshire coast’s largest holiday parks after previously uni...

Red Squirrel. Picture by David Knighton

Campaigners call on Government to help save native red squirrel

Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins speaks at the Conservative Party Conference. Credit: Getty

Conservatives would abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency

The conservation project at Fulford Ings nature reserve beside the River Ouse is being expanded.

Protection for wildlife extended at haven

View towards Flamborough head showing both lighthouses. PIC: Marisa Cashill

Wolds designation as a Natural Landscape to be welcomed

Pat Wharam Countryside Access officer for the East Riding on the Yorkshire Wolds Way near Thixendale. Sunday Oct 2 marks the 40th anniversary of the Yorkshire Wolds Way. To mark it, ramblers and trail rangers are guiding people on shorter walks crossing its 79-mile stretch from the Humber Bridge to Filey Brigg. Picture Tony Johnson

Yorkshire Wolds National Landscape designation proposed

A view along one of the many dry valleys that are characteristic of the Yorkshire Wolds

Britain's most northerly chalk landscape to get extra protection

A grouse bird in flight on the moors. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Government review into shooting gamebirds 'will lead to crackdown'

Smoke fills fields and woods as a fire on Langdale Moor flared up on August 27, 2025 in Fylingdales. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Treatment of farmers after huge wildfire nothing short of insulting - Emma Ryan

Firefighters bravery - Flashback to last August when North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service had to tackle a catastrophic wildfire at Fylingdales Moors in North Yorkshire. (Picture Paul Edwards)

‘It will take a death before wildfire policy is changed’

File pic: The Langdale Moor fire last August. Credit: Getty | Getty Images

Wildfire warning as Yorkshire's fire severity index hits 'exceptional'

A sheep drinks from a trough as smoke rises from a wildfire behind farmland on the North Yorks Moors as it continues to burn on last year at Fylingdales.

'Palpable sense of frustration' over wildfire double standards claim

Andy Burnham outside his house in Warrington, Cheshire. PIC: Peter Powell/PA Wire

Farmers deserve to be put on a pedestal

Andy Burnham MP is tipped to become the next PM

Burnham urged to 'back British food' over chicken farm applications

Langdale Moor: a wildfire broke out that burned for weeks, closing roads, evacuating homes and businesses. Now, the Government has announced almost £100m towards improving resilience and preparedness for future wildfires. (photo, SWNS)

'Someone is getting killed': gamekeeper issues wildfire warning

Drone taking flight to release seeds over a ravine in the Peak District, as part of efforts to restore the remote woodland habitat

Drones drop seeds across Peak District to restore woodland habitat

The “Wainwright Way” ends in Robin Hood’s Bay overlooking the North Sea.

Wainwright’s coast to coast route becomes newest national trail

Stott Hall Farm on the M62

The traditional wall is a work of art on our farm - Jill Thorp

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A small number of members of the Craven Potholing Club have been digging by hand in the new C-Chamber for just over a year at Stump Cross Caverns, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near Pateley Bridge, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Since starting work in 2025 they moved a staggering 75 tonnes in one year and there's over 200 tonnes to go with the aim to be open for visitors in 2028. Recently one of the members made an amazing discovery a prehistoric Wolverine jaw believed to be around 80-90,000 years old. This extraordinary discovery provides valuable insight into the Ice Age fauna that once inhabited the Yorkshire Dales. The specimen will be carefully preserved and studied by palaeontologists, and visitors to Stump Cross Caverns will have the opportunity to learn about this fascinating find as part of their cave or fossil dig experience. Pictured Caver, Clive Bone, a members of the Craven Potholing Club loading tubs containing rocks, silt, and mud which in then pulled by rope out the cave system for further inspection. Picture: James Hardisty. Date: 9th February 2026.

Wolverine’s remains are uncovered in Yorkshire Dales cavern

The unique landscape of the Wolds around Thixendale, East Yorkshire, is to receive greater protection

'Hidden gem' to become Yorkshire's latest 'area of outstanding natural beauty'

Mating badgers have caused the delay of road repairs. (Photo: Jason Skeen)

Drivers face 36-mile diversion due to repair delays caused by mating badgers
Legal protections for badgers have been blamed for blocking repairs to a road for six months and leaving residents, farmers and businesses facing diversions of up to 36 miles.
Alexandra Wood

Councillor Mike Schofield at the Harrogate Spring Water plant.

Expansion plans “strike right balance” amid criticism

Common Adder

How Yorkshire is playing a key role in protecting Britain's only venomous snake

The wind farm would be built near the Stang Forest. The photo shows moorland from the Stang Top, looking towards Teesdale.

Plans for large wind farm on edge of Yorkshire Dales revealed

Shadow Defra Secretary Victoria Atkins gives a speech at Conservative Party Conference in front a JCB tractor. Credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Tories considering axing Natural England and the Environment Agency

Black grouse gather at specific sites, returning to the same sites generation after generation, to compete for females

Rare black grouse breed in North York Moors for first time in almost 200 years

Dramatic shot of the fire lighting up the night sky. Picture: Dean Cordwell.

Fears firefighter will die before Government pays attention to moor fires

Emergency services battle to contain the giant blaze on Langdale Moor

'Jaw-droppingly non-scientific’ - Countryside reacts to Government burning ban

Fire beaters control the burning of heather on moorland near Dunford Bridge, near Sheffield.

Anger over extension of deep peat ban

The charred lanscape following the fire in the North York Moors. PIC: Richard Ponter

Emotion cannot come into moorland management

Autumn colours and the deserted medievel village of Wharram Percy in the Yorkshire Wolds. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Bid to designate Yorkshire Wolds as area of outstanding natural beauty

BG - 20012132 - Works taking place on a busy construction site

West Yorkshire homebuilder calls for safe play during summer
As the summer holidays approach, Barratt and David Wilson Homes is encouraging families to utilise local parks, playgrounds, and leisure centres for fun and engaging activities that ensure children’s safety.
Dan Cole

White-tailed eagle: Largest UK bird of prey spotted in Yorkshire this month

A plan of the proposed solar farm near Brompton-on-Swale.

Huge solar farm on agricultural land straddling A1(M) set for approval

A wetland scrape in the uplands of Wensleydale, which can hold rainwater, slowing the flow and reducing flood risk in the valley bottom, and provides habitat for birds.

How farmers and Natural England are working to protect Yorkshire's landscape

Bittern hunting prey in the shallow water during a spring afternoon.

The best time to see an elusive bird

The striking lady’s-slipper orchid was believed to be extinct in the UK by the early 20th century

Wild orchid found in Yorkshire Dales for first time in 100 years

Colt Park Barn, which Natural England is set to refurbish.

Natural England scheme given go-ahead despite wildlife concerns

Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve. Image: Natural England

Steel signing celebrates landmark at Lower Derwent Valley reserve

Landscape near Bradford that inspired Brontë sisters is declared nature reserve

Landscape which inspired Brontë sisters declared a nature reserve

Marsden Moor fire of April 2021

Wildfires 'inevitable' as Government urged to avoid 'Los Angeles-style tragedy'

Exmoor ponies' dental conformation makes them very neat grazers with a clean bite.

Why a herd of Exmoor ponies are making Yorkshire their new home

Robert Oates, chief executive of ecology consultancy Arbtech.

How the private sector can help to drive environmental change at pace

The early evening sun casts a golden glow over the properties and businesses overlooking South Bay, Scarborough. PIC: James Hardisty

Water investment expected to deliver positive outcomes - Mike Dugher

New report from Planning Portal

75% of planning applications claim exemptions from Biodiversity Net Gain

A Wild Ingleborough volunteers' potting day.

Yorkshire Dales nature recovery project at Ingleborough heralds breakthrough

Andrew Gilruth is the chief executive of the Moorland Association.

Restrictions on vegetation management need to be reversed - Andrew Gilruth

An artist's impression image issued by HS2 of the bat protection structure. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

How are bats are more important than Children In Need? - YP Letters

Holmfirth Artist Rosalind Annis

National Conference Celebrates Milestones in Upland Recovery and Inspires Next S...

Fen raft spider.

Watch: How big are fen raft spiders as species returns to UK

Ashes Pasture, Globeflower, credit David Berry

How we are continuing to work to save Ingleborough’s rare blooms - Amy Cooper

A ringed plover, which you may spot acting injured on Yorkshire beaches

The bird with the best camouflage for the beach - and why it may look injured

Members of a shooting party prepare to mark the Glorious Twelfth, the annual start of the grouse shooting season on an estate in the Angus Glens on August 12, 2023 in Forfar, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Grouse shortage means Glorious 12th is under a cloud this year: Adrian Blackmore

Work is finished and completed on the stepping stones across the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey

Iconic stepping stones at Bolton Abbey back in action after restoration

Therese Coffey speaks during the second day of the Conservative Party Conference on October 2, 2023 in Manchester, England. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Government Ministers cannot be trusted to protect nature reserves - YP Letters

Sunset over purple heather in bloom at Little Blakey Howe, on Blakey Ridge in the heart of the North York Moors National park.

World's fire-fighters laughing at UK over re-wetting approach to moor management

North Yorkshire Council Picture LDRS

Pig farmers seek consent for plastics recycling beside National Park

Tony Juniper is the chairman of Natural England PIC: PA

Construction and nature don’t need to be competing interests

Lister Mill chimney

'Feral pigeons' to be prey of peregrine falcons if nest is installed at mill

The current A19 crossing of the Coast to Coast trail

Fears public inquiry could delay progress of Coast to Coast trail in Yorkshire

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