Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust receives £469,000 from the Trees Call to Action Fund The South Yorkshire Woodland Creation Partnership project led by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust has been awarded a grant from the £6 million Trees Call to Action Fund, led by Defra, the Forestry Commission and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The partnership project — which is headed by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust and includes […]
Natural flood management work begins in Limb Brook Valley Work has started on implementing a series of natural flood management measures in the Limb Brook Valley to help protect Sheffield and the region against future flooding. The project is a partnership between the Environment Agency, Sheffield City Council and Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, and is supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. […]
We declare a Nature Emergency for Rotherham As well as a climate crisis, our wildlife is facing a critical emergency, with 1 in 4 species in the UK now at threat of extinction. Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust has teamed up with Rotherham Climate Action and others to create a new alliance – ‘Nature Recovery Rotherham’ – dedicated to helping restore local […]
Nature for Everyone Add your name to our new campaign calling for a legal right to local nature in the Government’s Levelling Up reforms.
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust wins £40,000 Movement for Good award The £40,000 award will enable Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust to extend Natural Flood Management work to suitable sites in the Upper River Don catchment area to mitigate flood risk.
New homes for barn owls On a crisp sunny day just before Christmas, the Sheffield Lakeland team from Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust, put up their first new barn owl box. A large oak tree in the Bradfield area, close to where barn owls have recently been seen, was carefully chosen for the location of nest box. It was attached […]
New boxes a hit with bats 60 new bat boxes put up earlier in the year by the Sheffield Lakeland team from Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, are already proving to be a big hit.
Today we launched a new initiative to increase the local population of the brilliant Brimstone Butterfly! Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust (SRWT) have teamed up with a new local environmental organisation called Nether Edge and Sharrow Sustainable Transformation (NESST) to launch an exciting new initiative and are inviting the Sheffield and Rotherham community to join us in taking some simple, practical steps, which will help the Brimstone butterfly population to “explode” in […]
Another successful year for Hen Harrier breeding in England Original story here Numbers of chicks increase for fifth successive year Natural England and partners, including the RSPB, have recorded the best year for hen harrier breeding in England since the 1960s with 84 chicks fledged from nests across uplands in County Durham, Cumbria, Lancashire, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Hen harriers were once found across upland […]
Success for the day of mass declaration of a Nature Emergency in Sheffield! More than 1,000 individuals and 30 organisations joined together for a mass statement on Friday 21st May to declare a Nature Emergency for Sheffield. As a result of the campaign, on Friday’s declaration day, both Sheffield City Council’s new Labour and Green Party administration and Labour’s new Shadow Minister for Nature, Water, and Flooding, Sheffield Hallam MP Olivia Blake publicly said that they strongly support declaring a Nature Emergency in Sheffield.