Lighthouse Volunteer
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a lighthouse keeper? If you have and you have a passion for lighthouses and their history, then this could be the perfect role for you!
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Spurn National Nature Reserve
Welcome to Yorkshire's very own Lands End. Start your adventure at Spurn from our Spurn Discovery Centre!
My breath of fresh air
Michael manages Stanley Moss Nature Reserve; he loves the serenity of the area and the different wildlife that he can see. The area was once used for coal mining, and was drained and planted with…
Walking to Spurn’s very own Land’s End
Spurn National Nature Reserve is a sandy peninsula jutting out, 3.5 miles from the end of the Holderness Coast, into the mouth of the Humber Estuary. This unique and iconic landscape may be ever…
Devastating news for bees as Government reverses neonicotinoids ban
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is alarmed to learn the Government has agreed the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the treatment of sugar beet seed in response to…
Why do we plant trees for river restoration?
Suzie Knight, Upper Aire Project Officer, and Chris Watt, BEACH Esk Project Officer, explain the vital importance tree planting has for their river restoration work at opposite ends of our county…
First-ever spotting at Spurn Point
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust were very excited in mid-July to record the discovery of the first white-letter hairstreak butterfly at Spurn!
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.
The world beneath the waves
There is a hidden world underneath the waves and we only get to see a glimpse of it...
Waves of Waste beach clean at Spurn (Multiple Dates)
Join our Waves of Waste co-ordinators as they give Spurn beach a thorough tidy up to protect marine wildlife.
River Aire
Our work on the River Aire Upper Catchment
My joy ride
After working hard all week, for Cally, there’s nothing better than a gallop along the River Trent at Lady Bay in Nottingham. She shares this wild space with dog walkers, cyclists and other horse…