Category: Nature, Health & Wellbeing

Fixed Point Photography Post in Ecclesall Woods on the Limb Brook Catchment

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust issues survey to assess flood impacts on health, wellbeing, and the environment

The Wildlife Trusts have partnered with RSA to understand the impacts of flooding, and natural flood management methods, on people’s health and wellbeing. The partners have issued a public survey, a link is provided below, about local Natural Flood Management (NFM) sites. How they can benefit the local environment and people. The Wildlife Trusts manage […]

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 […]

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 […]

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