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Rockpool Safaris are held at South Landing. Photo: Tom Marshall

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to host special events near Bridlington

Migweek 2023 will have activities taking place in Filey, Hunmanby, Bempton and Flamborough. Photo: Flamborough Bird Observatory.

Bird migration week celebrated near Bridlington with number of special events

A Bridlington beach clean is set to take place on October 7. Photo: Paul Atkinson PA Press & PR

Bridlington residents invited to beach clean up next month

The North York Moors National Park Authority is aiming to restore various areas of peatland Picture: LDRS

North Yorks Moors National Park set to secure millions in extra funding

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have released a new guidebook called 'Discover Yorkshire's Wildlife'.

New Yorkshire Wildlife Trust guidebook to help ‘Discover Yorkshire’s Wildlife’

A picnic set up at the stately home. (Pic credit: Castle Howard)

Castle Howard: Outdoor events taking place in Yorkshire this summer

Great Yorkshire Creature Count is back for a fourth year – bigger and wilder than ever before.

How to join in the Great Yorkshire Creature Count

The Yorkshire Puffin Festival

IN PICTURES: 13 photos of Puffin Festival near Bridlington

North Cave Wetlands are part of the Humberhead Levels and an important seabird habitat

Major avian flu outbreak onfirmed at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site

Skipsea-based artist Saffron Waghorn working on repairs to puffin sculpture ‘Headscarf Revolutionary’ by Susan Woolhouse.

Puffins Galore! statues display in Bridlington

Build a bird pox to encourage wildlife

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust launches its own gardening award - here's how to enter...
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have launched a Wildlife Gardening Award to thank and inspire gardeners to care for creatures on their doorstep.

Volunteers are wanted to help plant trees and hedges to protect the River Esk.

Trust's call for volunteers to plant trees and hedges alongside River Esk

The seal pup which had been caught in entangled rope near Bridlington. picture: British Divers Marine Life Rescue

Plea to help rid Yorkshire coastline of marine litter

Wild Ingleborough partnership continued into its third year, increasing the existing 1200 hectares of new land large-scale landscape restoration by 420 hectares

A look at the work of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Daffodil the donkey with Melissa Tate, assistant head zoo keeper; John Pickering, head zoo keeper and farmer Rob Nicholson from Cannon Hall Farm. (L to R)

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrates a record year for minke whales on East Coast

The event is on until Sunday, October 16 with bird ringing every day at the Living Seas Centre and more walks and talks.

Still time to join this year’s migration week activities at Flamborough

Donation to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to help a multitude of native wildlife.

£1,000 donated to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust by local housebuilder

From left: Jess Slater, Jo White and Luke Pentith at Whitby Distillery in Botany Way, and the £5,000 cheque for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Whitby Distillery's cash donation to boost Yorkshire Wildlife Trust sea campaign

Young Spoonbills at Fairburn Ings, near Leeds.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust appeals for help to protect its wetlands and their wild...

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is running Living Seas Safaris on multiple dates at Flamborough’s North Landing until Thursday, August 25. Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is holding Living Seas Safaris at North Landing to prov...

Wildlife Watch: We are all being encouraged to take part in Yorkshire Wildlife Trust‘s Great Yorkshire Creature Count.

In pictures: All creatures great and small

From noon Saturday June 18 until noon Sunday June 19, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is asking Yorkshire folk to spot, count and record the creatures in their outdoor spaces

Here's how to sign up to take part in this year's Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Creat...

The guided walk from Sewerby Steps will see people discover more about the geology and rockpools of this area, and the clues they hold about our marine life past and present. Photo by Richard Ponter

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to host ‘Marine Life Past and Present’ guided walk at S...

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s (YWT) Great Yorkshire Creature Count is back for its third year next month. Photo courtesy of Jon Hawkins

Opportunity for East Coast residents to take part in this year’s Great Yorkshire...

Visitors receive a warm welcome at the Puffin Festival at Flamborough. Image courtesy of O’Hara Photography

Picture special: More than 1,000 visitors go wild at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s ...

The festival is based around puffins.

The Yorkshire Puffin Festival will be held at Flamborough later this month – fin...

The popular Yorkshire Puffin Festival will take place in May.

Flamborough’s North Landing will host the Yorkshire Puffin Festival in May

A mother and calf bottleneck dolphin pictured off Scarborough. Photo: Stuart Baines / SWNS

Wildlife information boards to be installed on Scarborough seafront
Wildlife information boards to raise awareness of marine and coastal species are to be installed on Scarborough’s seafront.

Children build a pond and plant trees at Our Lady and St Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Bridlington. Photo submitted

Our Lady and Saint Peter RC Primary School pupils create new wildlife area ahead...

Invisible Dust and Yorkshire Wildlife unveil a new sculpture at Scarborough Castle by Ryan Gander - Ryan views his sculpture in situ. Pic: RIchard Ponter

Ryan Gander unveils new Wild Eye sculpture at Scarborough Castle

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust hosts regular events from the Living Sea Centre at Flamborough's South Landing.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is appealing for events and engagement volunteers along...

Scarborough Castle picture: English Heritage

Climate change sculptures coming to Scarborough Castle and Whitby harbour

Jon Traill, a wildlife expert from YWT, will be taking the guided wildlife walks around the organic farm.

Winter wildlife walks held at Side Oven Bakery venue near Foston

Christmas in Narnia returns to Castle Howard. Pic credit: Charlotte Graham

Castle Howard: Christmas in Narnia returns

More than 400 people have been cast to star in Animated Object’s remaking of ‘The Odyssey’ – an epic adventure on the Yorkshire Coast.

More than 400 people to feature in re-telling of The Odyssey on Yorkshire coast

Enjoying the waves. (JPI Media/ Richard Ponter)

Surf's Up: 15 photos from Scarborough's surf festival on North Bay

Scarborough Castle.

Families invited to join art and nature events in Scarborough and Whitby

Emma Stothard with the beautiful Green Hairstreak butterfly sculpture. Photo: Richard Walker/PA Wire

Yorkshire Coast BID butterfly sculpture is unveiled

Whitby artist Emma Stothard with her butterfly sculpture, unveiled at Spurn Point.

Whitby artist's butterfly sculpture revealed on Yorkshire coast

A tick is a small arachnid (related to spiders) that feeds on blood – it can be alarming to find one feeding on your body.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust team’s detailed tick list to prevent bites while out an...

A previous beach clean on North Bay organised by Sealife Scarborough. (JPI Media/ Richard Ponter)

Keep Our Coast Clean: Beach litter continues to cause problems for wildlife

Emma Stothard works on her sculpture in her Whitby studio.

Whitby artist's 10ft butterfly among new Yorkshire coast sculpture trail

People can sign up and find everything you need to take part in the Great Yorkshire Creature Count 2021 at ywt.org.uk.People can sign up and find everything you need to take part in the Great Yorkshire Creature Count 2021 at ywt.org.uk.

The Great Yorkshire Creature Count is back – take part in the citizen science pr...

A beach clean will be held in Flamborough on Sunday, May 2.

Volunteers needed to join beach clean and help Yorkshire Wildlife Trust collect ...

Bridlington Bay Lobster Festival will celebrate the area as the largest lobster fishery in Europe.

Yorkshire Coast BID announces two local festivals as part of 2021 programme
The Yorkshire Coast BID team has announced an exciting programme of events taking place over the next 12 months.

Cleveland Way walker Gail, from Liverpool, photographed the dolphins from the cliffs

Whitby treated to 'all-day dolphin show' as pod play in the harbour

The dolphins were seen near Scarborough at the weekend. Photo: Steve Baines

The Moray Firth dolphins are back on the Yorkshire coast

The beach cleans take place roughly every two week

Salt of the Earth: Meet Lisa O'Boyle who is coordinating beach cleans in Filey

Cleaning the beach at Filey.

Residents invited to take part in beach clean in Filey this Sunday

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Yorkshire RHS expert talks of Giant Hogweed dangers