Wildlife and Nature Reserves in Yorkshire

Wildlife and Nature Reserves in Yorkshire. Habitats for birds, squirrels, wild flowers and more, experience and be educated and enjoy the great outdoors.

Snaizeholme Red Squirrel Trail

The Snaizeholme red squirrel viewing area lies in the heart of the Widdale Red Squirrel Reserve. The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and local landowners have created the red squirrel viewing area for the public at Snaizeholme, so you can see them in the wild.

RSPB in Yorkshire

Coastland and wetand RSPB reserves in Yorkshire are home to a wide range of species, including unique and rare bird sightings.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust looks after over 100 nature reserves across Yorkshire, providing a wide range of protected ecosystems for wildlife and plant species.

Foxglove Covert

Foxglove Covert Local Nature Reserve covers 100 acres and has a remarkable mix of habitats and species. The reserve contains semi-natural woodland, heathland, flower-rich grassland, streams, ponds, a lake, willow and alder carr, coniferous woodlands and wet meadows.

Tophill Low Nature Reserve

Located north of Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Tophill Low Nature reserve is an active Yorkshire Water treatment works built in 1959. It formally opened as a nature reserve in 1993 and features 12 hides spread across a 300 acre site that flanks the river Hull.

Potteric Carr

Potteric Carr is a wild oasis just waiting to be explored. Now nestling between motorway and railway, it's a remnant of the vast fenland that once stretched all the way across the Humber basin to the coast.

Wild Sheffield Reserves

From meadows and reedbeds to woodlands and beaches, nature reserves are protected places where wildlife can live and ultimately thrive. Our nature reserves in Sheffield and Rotherham are managed by our dedicated conservation teams. We protect, restore and create a mix of habitats where wildlife can flourish.

Three Hagges Woodmeadow

Come and enjoy a woodmeadow! The WoodMeadow Trust flagship site at Escrick, near York, is open to the public from dawn to dusk 365 days per year. Entry is free.

Rodley Nature Reserve

Rodley Nature Reserve is designed to bring wetland wildlife back into the Leeds area. Created on a floodplain in Kirkstall Valley, a recognised ‘flyway’ for wildfowl and waders on migration, the wetland habitats constructed here complement the nearby River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Marsden Moor

Marsden Moor covers over 5000 acres of moorland. Fantastic place for a walk and to spend time with nature, the area also has historical significance with finds dating back to pre-historic man.

St Nicks York

explore 24 acres of unique green space on the site of a former rubbish tip. St Nicks became a Local Nature Reserve in February 2004 in order to conserve and maintain a diverse range of habitats sustaining wildlife surrounded by urbanisation. It lies a mere mile from the city centre of York in between an industrial zone and a housing estate.

Highlights in the Yorkshire Natural Calendar

A year of nature and wildlife highlights in Yorkshire, get out and see dolphins, whales, the elusive red squirrels or enjoy a walk through wildflower meadows.

Spurn Nature Reserve

Spurn Point is Yorkshire's very own Lands End - an iconic and constantly moving peninsula which curves between the North Sea and the Humber Estuary. At over three miles long but as little as 50 metres wide, this landscape is unique and ever-changing.

Flamborough Cliffs Nature Reserve

Flamborough Head has one of the most important seabird colonies in Europe. In summer the cliffs are packed with tens of thousands of breeding auks, gannets, gulls and puffins, creating a memorable experience

Filey Dams Nature Reserve

Filey Dams is the last remaining freshwater marsh of any size in the area, making it a magnet for migratory birds. It’s home to a variety of insects, amphibians, small mammals and plants, and with three viewing hides along a short path it’s one of our easiest reserves to get around.