Natural World

Join David Raffaelli, ecologist and Trustee at Woodmeadow Trust, to learn about the partnerships between fungi, flowering plants and trees, and to discover how strange and familiar animals keep our soils, and our planet, healthy.

Join us for an evocative journey through the acoustic world of 16th-century York that will allow you to view our city’s rich natural heritage from a fresh perspective.

Join wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill for a thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of animal communication, where big data and artificial intelligence are changing our relationship with animals forever.

Celebrate divine and earthly beauty at this year’s Flower Festival, organised by the All Saints Church in collaboration with Askham Bryan College, York.

Join community environment charity St Nicks to see river restoration in action as part of the York Cares Big Community Challenge, which aims to support river and wetland restoration at various locations across our city.

Join community environment charity St Nicks to see river restoration in action as part of the York Cares Big Community Challenge, which aims to support river and wetland restoration at various locations across our city.

Celebrate divine and earthly beauty at this year’s Flower Festival, organised by the All Saints Church in collaboration with Askham Bryan College, York.

Zoologist Louise Allcock leads you down into the canyons, trenches and hydrothermal vents of the watery abyss, presenting the deep ocean and its inhabitants as you have never seen them before.

Join us as we talk to ‘manonabeach®’, Ian Brighouse, about his fascinating project that celebrates the elemental power of the beach, where the air, land and sea meet.

Join writer, scientist and educator Lixing Sun as he explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how it has given rise to wondrous diversity.

Celebrate divine and earthly beauty at this year’s Flower Festival, organised by the All Saints Church in collaboration with Askham Bryan College, York.

Celebrate the beauty and diversity of our nation’s plants with ecologist, writer and BBC Countryfile presenter Mike Dilger, who discusses his mission to see 1,000 different wild plants in one calendar year.

Join us for a day of interdisciplinary events focusing on the changing ways in which humans have lived and farmed in and around Heslington from the pre-Roman period onwards.

Palaeontologist Phil Manning takes you on a journey to the remote badlands of Wyoming, where he and his team have been investigating a dinosaur graveyard packed with skeletons, fossilised plants and footprints.

Award-winning dog groomer, TV personality and experienced dog handler Verity Hardcastle tells you everything you need to know to create a joyful friendship with your dog.

Celebrate divine and earthly beauty at this year’s Flower Festival, organised by the All Saints Church in collaboration with Askham Bryan College, York.

Join our panel of experts to hear all about the groundbreaking ‘Pyramids of Life’ project that seeks to better understand how we can work sustainably to manage our oceans.

Join us for a guided walk exploring the flora and fauna of the University of York campus grounds.

Delve into the topic of biodiversity and discover the nuanced relationships between humanity and nature with environmental writer Emma Marris and Chris Thomas, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York.

Environmental writer Louise Gray shares the stories behind our favourite fruits and vegetables, and why nothing is ever perfect.

Come along to this inspiring panel discussion and exhibition, captured by an artist’s live drawings, that will invite you to imagine what a rewilded York could look like.