Volunteers plant 200 native trees as river restoration project is completed on local nature reserve

Volunteers plant 200 native trees as river restoration project is completed on local nature reserve - Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust

A year long river restoration project, including volunteer tree planting, has been completed on Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust’s Woodhouse Washland nature reserve. The works will have a huge impact on local wildlife including improving conditions for fish breeding, creating habitat for wading birds and increasing the breeding opportunities for the protected species great crested newt.

With £34,928 of funding provided by Biffa Award, a multimillion-pound fund that helps to build communities and transform lives through awarding grants to communities and environmental projects across the UK, three in-channel berms have been installed in the River Rother to diversify flow in the canalised river, improving habitat for fish breeding making this area more habitable for them.