From Chalk Hills to Crystal Waters: Discovering East Yorkshire's Chalk Streams
For his latest "Telling Our Story" blog, Simon joined 25 other volunteers and Trust staff on a Volunteer 'Discovery Day' to learn about East Yorkshire's beautiful chalk…
Blog: conservation
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The Fight to Save a Species - a Crayfish Officer's Journey
In her latest blog, Telling our Story volunteer Sara talked to Vanessa Barlow, YWT’s Crayfish Project Officer to find out more about how she got into conservation and her most rewarding work, as…
Discovering Low Wood
Telling our Story volunteer Sara joined the YWT Low Wood Supporter’s Group on a woodland maintenance day in August. Although smaller in size, she found a reserve packed with interest and a…
Heartfelt Leadership - Rachael's Insights
Sara, one of our Telling our Story volunteers, describes an inspiring interview with Rachael Bice, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s chief executive. Rachael is as a passionate person who wants to make a…
What is meant by ecological succession?
South Reserves Assistant, Katie Baker, talks us through ecological succession and why it is important for Reserve Managers, in order to maintain precious habitats.
Pollarding, not a palaver!
In this series of blogs, our South Reserves Assistant, Katie Baker, talks to us about a variety of traditional techniques which we still use today on many of our reserves. In this blog Katie tells…
Green Careers Week - Meet (some of) our staff!
As part of Green Careers Week 2022, some of our staff share how they came to work for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and what advice they would give budding conservationists.
Celebrating the volunteers who help protect Yorkshire’s wildlife
We couldn’t do what we do without our volunteers – around 900 people give their time to help us protect Yorkshire’s wildlife and wild places, and connect people with nature.