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The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is encouraging people to enjoy one of the UK's most recognisable natural springtime spectacles while they can - as carpets of bluebells cover woodland areas during April and May.

The charity is warning that the beloved bluebell, above, may soon be a species seen only on woodland edges as the wild flower is particularly susceptible to climate change.

Terry Smithson, head of conservation projects, said: "Bluebells make the most of a brief window of opportunity in early spring, growing to full height and flowering before the trees that they grow among come into leaf and cast them into deep shade.

"However, the effects of climate change mean this window is slowly closing.

"If bluebells' neighbouring trees adjust to the warmer weather by coming into leaf several weeks earlier while the bluebell's timing remains much the same, they may not receive the light they need to grow and flower, and so may fast disappear from our woodlands.

"If this were to happen, we would lose one of spring's natural spectacles."

4:11pm Monday 7th April 2008

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