Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust welcomes Sheffield City Council’s commitment to reduce their use of the herbicide glyphosate.
Tag: Action for Insects
Leave peat undisturbed – in bogs, not bags!
Join our call for an immediate ban on the sale of all peat products.
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.
Government puts bees at risk
The Government has once again put bees at risk by permitting the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam on sugar beet in England in 2022.
Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trusts are Conservation Evidence Champions!
Signing up as a Conservation Evidence Champions means that we have committed to ensure that evidence is included in the decisions we make about how we manage our nature reserves.
Call for gardeners to demand peat free compost and end to peat product sales
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust are asking gardeners to demand peat free composts from retailer in a call for an immediate end to the sale of peat products.
Respond to the Government’s pesticides consultation
Insects pollinate a third of all our food crops. Much of our wildlife relies on them for food – be it birds, bats, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals or fish. But the shocking reality is that 41% of the Earth’s remaining insect species are threatened with extinction. In the UK alone we have lost at least […]
Bad news for bees: Government reverses ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021. The Wildlife Trusts strongly oppose this decision.