Dearne Valley Conservation
We are working as part of The Dearne Valley Green Heart Partnership to restore this thriving community into a paradise for nature.
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Dearne Valley Country Park
Right in the heart of Barnsley, Dearne Valley Country Park is criss-crossed by inviting paths, taking you through woodland and grassland, with riverside wildlife to enjoy along the way.
Living Seas LIVE
Welcome to Living Seas LIVE! Our series of monthly marine talks hosted by our Living Seas team. Each month we will be joined by fantastic special guests to chat about the North Sea, its wildlife, and the work that is being done to protect it.
Wildlife in South Yorkshire's Dearne Valley is given special protection
This is a story of hope and optimism and a tale of how, with determination, cooperation and the will to win, one of the most degraded landscapes in Europe has been transformed into a wildlife…
Living Seas Events Centre
Find out how you can explore the Yorkshire coast either in person or at home.
Living Seas Centre celebrates as visitor numbers hit historic high
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas Centre at Flamborough welcomes 20,000th visitor this year
Learning to lay living hedges
Faced with a wall of tangled and straggly growth at Cali Heath Nature Reserve, a group of volunteers gathered to learn how to sort the wood from the trees. On a clear Autumn day they would sculpt…
Nature recovery updates
Read our regular Nature Recovery updates to learn more about our work to protect Yorkshire wildlife and wild places.
Coronavirus: latest updates
Our latest updates on Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Create and make
Arts and crafts activities to learn about and help wildlife at home!
First mass flowering in living memory of shy slender sedge
A species once thought lost for nearly a hundred years – and which has produced just a single flower in living memory – has for the first time this year flowered with nearly 2000 feathery spikes…
Great Crested Newt District Level Licensing Project
Great crested newts (GCN) are Britain’s largest and rarest native newt species. Having significantly declined in numbers in the last 60 years due to loss of habitat, particularly the ponds in which they breed, YWT is working with landowners to create and restore this vital habitat across a significant part of Yorkshire and help to reverse this population decline.