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For 80 years our charity has protected and restored Yorkshire's wildlife and its home in Yorkshire.🦉🦔🐬🌱🌷 www.ywt.org.uk A regional voice in The Wildlife Trusts federation. Become a member, volunteer or join our campaigns.
Early dog violets at Potteric Carr today.
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ICYMI, our annual report (detailing the 24/25 restoration season) is available. Together with our partners, funders and landowners and managers, we've brought almost 52,000 hectares of the #GreatNorthBog under restoration management since 2009:
www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Appeal launched to help a bog reman boggy in the face of climate threat @yorkswildlife.bsky.social thenortherneco.substack.com/p/can-you-he...
Moths are magical! 🦋✨
Moths are among the quiet heroes of our gardens. With around 2,500 species in the UK, they play a vital role, just like butterflies, but are often overlooked.
Find out more and learn how to help them here 👉 www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk #WildAboutGardens
Yorkshire obviously has some of the world's best wildlife. What are you waiting for, dive in and discover more! #WorldWildlifeDay
📸Jamie Hall
Blue Shieldbug (Zicrona caerulea) under a blue sky at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve yesterday. @ynuorg.bsky.social
YWT Paull Holme Strays.
Great to see & hear an abundance of life, the sizeable flocks of Curlew & huge skeins of Pink footed geese pictured.
Plenty of barn owls & a couple of Short Eared.
Our volunteers are amazing and do lots of different roles, have a listen to this heartening interview and find out more 💚
www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/defaul...
@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social has published its annual report for 24/25. They delivered 4,915 ha of new restoration in the #GreatNorthBog, an incredible effort in a challenging funding year. Thanks to all funders, partners, volunteers, landowners/managers for your valued support.
📸Beth Thomas
One bittern, quite shy!
Thanks to support from our members and donations, this wildlife reserve is thriving with close encounters www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon...
In the 53rd of this long-running (over 2 years) series of blogs Nick MacKinnon leads further technical criticism of this windfarm proposal now on its 3rd (hopeless) iteration markavery.info/2026/02/16/g...
#wind #turbine #peat #SAC/SPA #wildlife
Blimey....sun! 🌞And sun = insects. Dermestes murinus, Sitona lineatus, Oulema sp. and Acericerus ribauti at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Going to be dull and sleety from tomorrow, but today was enjoyable. 🙂@ynuorg.bsky.social #ukwildlife
Just how much more carbon does seagrass capture than tropical rainforests? 🤯
More from our incredible colleagues doing amazing things...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An owl fest at the Outstrays on the Humber today with at least 3 SEO and numerous barn owls #BirdsSeenIn2026 @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
Have you been wowed by incredible #murmuration videos online this winter? 🤩
Tune in to Channel 5's Milkshake TV on 6th Feb, where Ripon City Wetlands will be featured in a brand‑new episode, and download your free guide for tips & advice on witnessing the magic yourself: mailchi.mp/ywt.org.uk/m...
Look out for flocks of finches including siskin, goldfinch and redpoll finding their food on our nature reserves this winter
Join @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social for a day in the life working in conservation. On Yorkshire’s peatlands we use 'Eyes on the Bog' plots to monitor water, peat and plants, showing how revegetation, gully blocking and bunds boost wildlife and lock up carbon.
#peatlands #conservation
Shelduck squabbles at North Cave today
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Water Rail, Staveley today @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
YWT Skerne beautiful but chilly today
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Bitterns are usually very elusive but visitors have enjoyed lots of sightings of them at our North Cave Wetlands reserve this winter!
Fantastic to see coppicing happening at the entrance to Askham Bog, a @yorkswildlife.bsky.social nature reserve. Very important that people can see landscapes with active coppicing, and also very important to give more light to the many wet grassland wildflowers that live here
We're no stranger to a harsh Yorkshire winter, but how do our grazing animals cope with such inclement weather and what do they do in the winter months? Read our Winter Grazing blog to find out more.
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/winter-grazing
#conservationgrazing
UK nature is declining fast, yet the Fingleton Review proposes weakening vital protections. Wildlife can’t afford more loss. These plans aren’t law .. yet. There’s still time to act. Speak up now to protect nature. 👇
www.ywt.org.uk/fingleton-review-dont-turn-nature-crisis-catastrophe
Curlew flying over Paull Holme Strays. Here's my blog for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust about watching winter waders at this fantastic coastal reserve: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon... #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social
We concur with the healing power of nature, Happy Birthday to HRH Princess of Wales. 💚
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c394vykk4dgo
2025 yearly round up at Sprotbrough Flash #Birds #Yorkshire #Wildlife #SprotbroughFlash wildlifeandtravel.com
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www.wildlifeandtravel.com/post/sprotbr...
An icy day at North Cave today
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