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Planting for Pollinators in the Park!
As part of an action-packed year of community engagement initiatives, Friends of Alderman Kneeshaw Park in Hull have taken their efforts to improve their local park to the next level this autumn,…
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust wins national award
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrated winning a prestigious prize on 21st June, as they took home the ‘Innovation Award’ from the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management Award…
Seata Quarry Nature Reserve
With over 100 plant species flowering in this small former stone quarry in the Dales, including four species of orchid, a spring or summer visit is a must for wildflower enthusiasts.
Rifle Butts Quarry Nature Reserve
A tiny nature reserve full of wildflowers and butterflies in summer. Rifle Butts Quarry provides an introduction to the wildlife typical of the remaining natural areas of the Yorkshire Wolds.…
Wharram Quarry Nature Reserve
A species rich chalk grassland, Wharram Quarry is home to many of the characteristic flowering plants that thrive on the thin Wolds soil. Butterflies flit from flower to flower and in the sky you…
Salt Lake Quarry Nature Reserve
This tranquil former limestone quarry is a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of botanists’ treasures. Its gems include several nationally scarce plants.
Pine marten at Spurn National Nature Reserve
Imagine our surprise earlier this year when reports of a rare mammal - more at home in remote woodlands - began to reach us at Spurn National Nature Reserve.
Natural icon of the Yorkshire Dales will be saved forever!
Staff at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are celebrating this week after receiving the news that a funding application to the Heritage Lottery Fund has been successful. Thanks to National Lottery players…
Claws for Thought: Saving North Yorkshire’s Native Crayfish
Sara spotted an advert for a ‘Curious About Crayfish’ event at Tarmac’s Threshfield Quarry, in the Yorkshire Dales and went along to find out more about how to save the UK’s only native freshwater…
Engaging families with urban wildlife in Yorkshire
As part of an initiative to reconnect residents of Bradford with their local, urban green spaces, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Bradford Council’s Countryside and Rights of Way team have been…
National Disabled Access Day
Wildlife Support Officer, Pete Lau, tells us more about accessibility on nature reserves from his own personal experiences and tells us why he loves Adel Dam so much!