Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
The logo of the Wildlife Trusts
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| Abbreviation | YWT |
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| Motto | Love Yorkshire, Love Wildlife |
| Formation | 1 January 1946 as Yorkshire Naturalists’ Trust |
| Type | Registered charity No.210807 |
| Legal status | Company limited by guarantee No.409650 |
| Purpose | Protecting wildlife and wild places, and educating, influencing and empowering people. |
| Headquarters | 1 St George's Place, York |
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Region served
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Traditional county of Yorkshire |
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Chief Executive
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Dr Rob Stoneman |
| Affiliations | The Wildlife Trusts partnership |
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Budget
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Accounts 2007-8 |
| Website | http://www.ywt.org.uk/ |
The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the traditional county of Yorkshire, England. The Trust is part of the UK-wide partnership of 47 Wildlife Trusts.It was formed in 1946, as the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Trust, essentially to preserve its first nature reserve Askham Bog on the outskirts of York. It now manages more than ninety reserves across the county, including some of the best wildlife sites in the UK. These nature reserves cover the diversity of Yorkshire’s landscape, from woodland to grassland, wetland and moorland, fen and bog, and river and coast. One of the flagship reserves is Potteric Carr, a mixed wetland habitat to the south of Doncaster.
This trust offers a membership card that users can access the below mentioned reserves:
Askham Bog
Barlow Common
Bishop Monkton Railway Cutting
Bolton-on-Swale Lake
Bolton Percy Station
Brae Pasture
Brockadale
Burton Leonard Lime Quarries
Burton Riggs
Chafer Wood
Ellerburn Bank
Fen Bog
Filey Dams
Garbutt Wood
Globe Flower Wood
Grass Wood
Harland Mount
Jeffry Bog
Leyburn Old Glebe
Little Beck Wood
Moorlands
Ripon Loop
Semer Water
Sherburn Willows
South House Pavement
Southerscales
Staveley
Strensall Common
Upper Dunsforth Carr
Wharram Quarry
Weldrake Ings
Yellands Meadow
Calley Heath
Flamborugh Cliffs
Hodgson's Fields
Keldmarsh
Kilnsea Wetlands
Kiplingcotes
North cave Wetlands
North Cliffe Wood
North Newbald Becksies
Paull Holme Strays
Pearson Park Wildlife Garden
Pulfin Bog
Rifle Butts Quarry
Saltmarshe Delph
Skerne Wetlands
Snakeholm Pastures
Spurn
Welwick Saltmarsh
Fen Carr
Hopyard Haymeadow
Maltby Low Common
Potteric Carr
Sprotborough Flash
Thorpe Marsh
Broadhead Clough
Hetchell Wood
Hollinhurst Wood
Kippax Meadows
Kirkstall Valley
Ledsham Bank
Ledston Luck
Letchmire Pastures
Low Wood
Owl Wood and Pit Plantation
Rothwell Country Park
Rothwell Pastures
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