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Together we can protect Yorkshire's wildlife
Together we can protect Yorkshire's wildlife
New report urges Government to tackle the immediate challenges facing our marine wildlife and habitats, including those off the Yorkshire coast.
One of the UK’s rarest marine species, this giant of the rocky shore is a very special fish.
As its name suggests, giant hogweed it a large umbellifer with distinctively ridged, hollow stems. An introduced species, it is an invasive weed of riverbanks, where it prevents native species…
With yellow-and-black bands, the giant horntail looks like a large wasp, but is harmless to us. The female uses her long, stinger-like ovipositor to lay eggs in pine trees, where the larvae then…
The giant house spider is one of our fastest invertebrates, running up to half a metre per second. This large, brown spider spins sheet-like cobwebs and pops up in the dark corners of houses,…
This football-sized fungus can be seen in autumn, sometimes growing on grass verges.
This large burrowing bivalve is found on sandy seabeds around much of the UK. It is the longest-lived animal known to man, with one individual found to be 507 years old!
Telling our story volunteer Howard Roddie decided he needed a haircut and thought he might get one for free. So, he headed off to the final Hebridean sheep shearing day of the season but he got…
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is asking its supporters to respond to a Government consultation by 10th May to ensure wildlife and Local Wildlife Sites are given protection in future planning policy.…