Our local rivers and wetlands are failing. But with your help, we are working towards cleaner, healthier and wilder waterways for wildlife and people to enjoy for years to come.

A BIG thank you to everyone who has supported this appeal so far through Earth Raise. But we still need support to reach our £55k target to protect these vital habitats. Will you help us?

Let’s make a splash for nature

Healthy rivers and wetlands are essential for nature, the climate and people. These natural systems clean our water, reduce flooding, store carbon, and provide vital habitats and feeding grounds for countless species.

But across Sheffield and Rotherham, our waterways are in poor health. Of 18 local river stretches, only three are in good ecological health and none pass chemical pollution tests. Pollution, habitat loss and weakened environmental protection mean that our rivers and wetlands can no longer function as they should – and wildlife is struggling to survive.

At Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, we believe in a future where our wetlands are healthy and full of life. A future where otters thrive, great-crested newts have plentiful ponds, and bats forage freely over open water rich with insects. We want to see water meandering naturally, sheltered by banks full of native plants and trees.

With your support, we can make this vision a reality: creating ponds for great-crested newts to breed, restoring wetter areas across our nature reserves, and re-naturalising the rivers that run through them.

Healthy wetlands are possible. We just have to choose them.