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Bridge at the lower Redmires Reservoir footpath to encourage appropriate access. Photo: Steph Wood

Making nature more accessible at Redmires

Wildlife volunteers have been helping make it easier for people to get closer to nature at Redmires Reservoirs, a popular-but-nature-sensitive beauty spot in the Sheffield Lakeland region, thanks to funding from Yorkshire Water. Working with Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust and their dedicated volunteers, Yorkshire Water have invested more than £40,000 at the well-loved location […]

Street Trees in Nether Edge, Sheffield. Photo: Dr Nicky Rivers

New website to promote Sheffield’s street trees

Street trees are one of the greatest natural assets of Sheffield’s cityscape. Thanks to a new website from the Sheffield Street Tree Partnership, everyone can now access more information about the city’s street trees. Sheffielders can visit sheffieldstreettreepartnership.org to find out more about the partnership, how it is working for a network of street trees […]

Olivia Blake MP meets Liz Ballard and Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust Staff at Ughill Farm. Photo: John Wright

Olivia Blake MP visits Ughill Farm

On Thursday 1st June Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust CEO Liz Ballard, Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Manager Keith Tomkins and Advocacy Officer Ian Cracknell met with Olivia Blake MP at Ughill Farm — the location of our exciting new opportunity to save a special local place for nature in her constituency. The Member of Parliament for […]

Tractor preparing ground for new tree planting. Photo: South Yorkshire Woodland Partnership

A new push for woodland in South Yorkshire

Landowners in South Yorkshire are being urged to join a new push to get more woods planted across the county. While great progress has been made in creating woodland on local authority land across Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham, private landowners are also being encouraged to benefit from opportunities to create new woods. As such […]