England's largest onshore wind farm in Yorkshire 'would be catastrophic for nature' ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
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How you can help save the 3,000 species which are at risk of being lost in Yorkshire ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
Roadside verges say a lot about the state of nature in Yorkshire. Take a closer look and you’ll find many that are overgrown and rank with grass, cow parsley, docks and not a lot else. Verges which are apparently bursting with life on closer inspection often have little variety....
Volunteers needed to help bring back to life a beck that was killed off by sewage spill pollution ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
Eight years ago a sewage overflow into a beck near a Harrogate stretch of river that was beyond the permitted level led to the “significant” killing of fish, invertebrates and other water wildlife....
A wildlife observation project is coming to York, giving residents and visitors the chance to record nature in the city ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
A wildlife observation project is coming to York, giving residents and visitors the chance to record nature in the city alongside locations around the world. The City Nature Challenge is taking place between April 26 and 29....
These are the best places in Yorkshire to visit if you are a lover of nature and wildlife ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
There’s a good reason Yorkshire has been dubbed ‘God’s Own Country’ by its residents; some of the most beautiful and even rare species of various animals can be found here....
Farmers helping to preserve the habitats and heritage of some of the wildest areas of the Peak District ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
The Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF) group currently represents 77 land managers who look after 40,000 hectares in the Dark and Southwest Peaks and the establishment of the group has been helped by a £100,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund....
Return of wild beavers to Sheffield waterways hundreds of years after they were hunted to extinction step closer ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
Sheffield councillors recently approved spending £98.7K on a study on introducing beavers to Blacka Moor and the surrounding Upper Don Catchment as part of natural flood defence plans for the area. The study is being funded by a Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee Capital Grant and by Yorkshire Water....
Inside the long-term project to revitalise the Peak District and Pennines ( www.yorkshirepost.co.uk )
A mammoth project to restore the Peak District’s “globally significant” landscape is well underway, and we headed to Hade Edge to see the progress being made by Moors for the Future....
