Countryside

Nature conservation is the protection and enhancement of wildlife and wild places. The aim is to secure a better future for wildlife and to improve people's understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of wildlife. We work with many organisations; both local, regional and national, in order to achieve this as well as looking at ways of encouraging landowners to conserve and enhance their land's natural beauty and wildlife.

In this section:

• Countryside conservation
  Countryside grants and nature conservation planning and policy
• Countryside events
  As well as developing our own events we work with many local organisations to produce a programme of guided walks and events
• Countryside Service
  Find out what the Countryside Service could do for you
• Grazing
  We arrange the grazing on Bootham Stray, Monk Stray, Walmgate Stray and Hob Moor. No grazing licences are available until 2021
• Tree and hedgerow management
  We have some responsibility for trees and woodlands within York
• Voluntary conservation groups
  Within York there are a number of organisations that provide practical support for nature conservation work and opportunities to learn some of the conservation skills and participate in conservation work programmes
• Wildlife
  Advice and land managment to maintain and enhance wildlife