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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrates wetland upgrades

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrates wetland upgrades

More homes for birds, butterflies and otters have been created at Staveley and Ripon City Wetland reserves, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) announces.

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Sarah Hartley
Feb 03, 2025
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Ripon City Wetlands. Picture: Amy Cooper

Ripon City Wetlands is one of the YWT’s newest reserves, created at the side of Ripon Racecourse, where recent new islands have been created on both the Canal and Riverside lagoons.

As well as its famous starling murmurations, Ripon City Wetlands is renowned for sand martins, lapwings and little ringed plovers in …

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