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Safeguarding Ingleborough’s Wildlife Sites

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust owns and manages five nature reserves totalling more than 60ha. All five reserves are representative of important limestone habitats in the Stories in Stone area. This project was being led by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with the help of the Southerscales and Dales Supporters Groups.

What did the project do?

The project was being led by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with the help of the Southerscales and Dales Supporters Group. It included extensive practical conservation works. Interpretation boards were installed, 980m of dry stone wall was repaired, scrub clearance and tree palnting brought 7.4 hectares of the site into favourable condition and access and connectivity was improved through and between the reserves and the surrounding Ingleborough landscape. A volunteer supportes group was esablished, with at least 30 new volunteers trained in nature reserve management, livestock checking and botanical monitoring. As a result, the nature reserve should be better managed, have greater volunteer support, and visitors will have a better experience.

Northern Living Landscapes Voluntary Trainee

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust worked with trainees to support and be involved in the delivery of the Stories in Stone projects, management of nature reserves and conservation projects in North Yorkshire. Over the project, 181 person days were delivered by the trainee.