Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Birdwatcher Paul Willoughby photographed the pine marten hunting rabbits at Spurn Point - one of the few times one of the elusive mammals has ever been caught on camera in daylight hours

Incredible rare photos taken of one of Yorkshire's only pine martens

Avocets breed at Filey Dams nature reserve for the first time

Avocets breed at Yorkshire coastal wetland reserve for the first time ever

Jim Horsfall, South Yorks reserve team leader for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, at the Fenn Carr Nature Reserve, as the wildflower meadows bloom, seeded a decade ago to mark 60 years since the Queen's Coronation.
Picture by Yorkshire Post Photographer Bruce Rollinson

How The Queen's Coronation celebrations are still helping wildlife in Yorkshire

A picnic set up at the stately home. (Pic credit: Castle Howard)

Castle Howard: Outdoor events taking place in Yorkshire this summer

North Cave Wetlands are part of the Humberhead Levels and an important seabird habitat

Major avian flu outbreak onfirmed at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site

Wilder Humber - Oyster nets being secured to trestles at Spurn

Ambitious plans to rewild the Humber revealed

An otter

First otter family sighting at Wheldrake Ings since 1960s

Dead and dying starfish that have been washed up on the beach at Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire. PIC: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Why it’s right to ask questions about dead shellfish - Andrew Vine

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Loversall Carr on the edge of Potteric Carr Nature Reserve

First-ever archaeological dig to take place at nature reserve next month

A photograph of two land army women, sheep shearing for the war effort in the London area, taken by a Planet News Ltd photographer on 15 May 1940 and used by the Daily Herald newspaper. © Daily Herald Archive/SMG Images

Shepherdess considered quitting due to barriers women face in farming

The Wild Ingleborough partnership continued into its third year, increasing the existing 1200 hectares of new land large-scale landscape restoration by 420 hectares. The team and volunteers also planted over 66,000 native trees, creating one of the first examples in England of re-establishing the natural tree line by helping natural habitats spread across the mountainside.

Some of the most surprising wildlife visitors to Yorkshire in 2022

There are fears over what the Government's environmental plans could mean for Yorkshire's countryside.Picture Tony Johnson

Wildlife boss: Government must rethink dangerous environmental plans

Luke Plentith and Jess Slater who produce Whitby Gin. They are pictured on the 199 steps.

Gin producers team up with wildlife charity to help preserve seascape

A beach clean at Fraisthorpe in Bridlington organised by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in 2018. Picture: Paul Atkinson.

Great Big Green Week events in Yorkshire to 'celebrate community climate action'

Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius), Kent, UK

Wetlands are essential for preserving rare species but under threat themselves

Roadchef wants to build new series in North Yorkshire

Plan to build new services with two drive-thrus on pasture land in Yorkshire

Pollution in one of the streams where illegal sewage discharges were made

Yorkshire Water donates £400,000 after polluting two streams with sewage

Gurdev Singh, a trustee at the organisation, pictured at its Brockadale Nature Reserve.

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust calls for new trustees from all backgrounds

Richard Compton at Newby Hall

Owner of Newby Hall applies to open quarry beside Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site

A black-winged stilt

Black-winged stilts: Rare bird breeds in Yorkshire for the first time
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has announced that two rare black-winged stilt chicks have fledged for the first time in Yorkshire at Potteric Carr nature reserve in Doncaster.

A puffin on the Yorkshire coast.

The Yorkshire Puffin Festival and how the seabird supports tourism

The seal pups were attacked on the Yorkshire coast near Kilnsea

Seal pup left with more than 20 wounds after being attacked by dog in Yorkshire

Peatlands in Yorkshire are in the process of being restored.

Restoration work on almost 40 per cent of Yorkshire's peatlands hailed

Farmers and landowners will be able to 'bid' for funding to make environmental improvements to their land.

New project will help farmers and landowners improve flood risk

Brockdale Nature Reserve

Wildlife trust says councillors are 'out of step with the people of Yorkshire'

Russell Meakin has been involved with Went Valley Aggregates since 1994.

'We've never damaged the environment': Quarry boss rejects claims

Artist Emma Stothard unveils her 8ft tall sculpture of a Green Hairstreak Butterfly, titled 'Spurn Butterfly', at Spurn Head

First of six sculptures to be placed along Yorkshire Coast unveiled

The mother and calf near RSPB Bempton Cliffs

Dolphin display continues as mother and calf entertain onlookers near Bempton

Annabel's in its original location

Doncaster farm cafe can remain open but cannot return to original location

Brockadale Nature Reserve is run by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is designated as a site of special scientific interest, because of its unique nature.

Brockadale Nature Reserve: Decision delayed on controversial quarry expansion

Undated handout photo issued by the Wildlife Trusts of fleet moss restoration on the Great North Bog.

Restoration of swathes of bog across the North will save 8,000 tonnes of carbon
Nature projects announced for across the country in the battle to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050 will include two initiatives in Yorkshire.

Ingleborough's natural landscape has suffered from intensive farming

Ingleborough to be rewilded to help rare species return to natural habitats

Staithes

Yorkshire Coast Nature reports 'earlier than ever' sightings of minke whales

Bempton Cliffs

RSPCA to patrol coast amid concerns over impact of people on nesting seabirds

Hundreds of objectors from either side of the North Yorkshire-Wakefield district border fought against the plans.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust pays tribute to nature reserve campaigners despite loss

Brockadale Nature Reserve

Council accused of 'favouring developers' as it approves quarry expansion

Brockadale nature reserve

Quarry expansion planned next to nationally important wildlife site

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Natural England are wanting to hear from landowners interested in developing habitats for the newts.

New project to halt decline in great crested newt numbers gets underway

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is asking everyone to Give Seas a Chance and help stop the decline in our sealife.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is campaigning to save Yorkshire's seas

Jill has been turning her hand to hairdressing - of a sort - this week

Sheep shearing skills don't mean a succesful DIY haircut at the farm on the M62

Great crested newt

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to create habitat for newts on farm in Ryedale

Undated handout photo issued by The Wildlife Trusts of degraded peatlands in Yorkshire. The Government must be more ambitious in protecting UK peatland or risk international embarrassment over its failure on climate action, wildlife campaigners have said.

'Follow Yorkshire's example on protecting peatland or risk failing on climate'

The reserve is described by Sir David Attenborough as a "cathedral of nature conservation".

Tales of hope for nature in a year which will be remembered for the pandemic

Annabel's cafe on Loversall Farm, Doncaster

Planning row over cafe on Yorkshire farm after it opened without permission

Robin Hood's Bay, near Whitby

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust releases 2020 year in review

Jo Webb, who has recently become chair of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Photo: Ernesto Rogata

'How I'm working with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to tackle nature crisis'

Veterans Janet and Terry Mitchell, on Garrowby Orchard in Hull, the proposed site for the Veterans Village Picture: Gary Longbottom

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Rachael Bice, chief executive of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's CEO on protecting nature in the region

One of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's previous projects, tackling the preservation of wetlands and peatlands on moorland above Skipton. Image: James Hardisty

Nation has 'forgotten what it's lost' warning ahead of new nature campaign

Cleveland Way walker Gail, from Liverpool, photographed the dolphins from the cliffs

Whitby treated to 'all-day dolphin show' as pod play in the harbour

A mink family on the Rochdale Canal at Hebden Bridge

Amazing photos capture family of mink beside canal in Hebden Bridge

The dolphins were seen near Scarborough at the weekend. Photo: Steve Baines

The Moray Firth dolphins are back on the Yorkshire coast

Askham Bog has been described as 'world renowned'. Picture: James Hardisty

Cross party MPs unite in final fight against Askham Bog development

Jono Leadley Director of Development at The Nursery pond at the new Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Ripon City Wetlands nature reserve, where reeds were grown to be transplanted around the rest of the nature reserve.

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The offshore seaweed farm is off the coast near Scarborough.

Yorkshire leading the way in marine industry with seaweed farm’s pioneering scal...

Scallop.

Scarborough firm SeaGrown to trial UK's first offshore scallop farm

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is tackling the preservation of our wetlands and peatlands. Pictured Tim Thom, Peat Programme Manager for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, with Matthew Snelling, Peatland Restoration Officer for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust on moorland above Skipton.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reveals thousands has been raised to help preserve York...

Katie Birks from Plastic Free Skipton with tree guards collected in the litter pick. Picture: Friends of the Dales

Around 800 'eyesore' tree guards removed from North Yorkshire farm

A stock image of the countryside near Hawes in Wensleydale.

Change the course of history with strong new laws to protect Yorkshire's wildlif...