[1] The river flows almost its entire length within the Wyming Brook Nature Reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest which is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham.

[4] Wildlife found around Wyming Brook includes moths such as the common lutestring and northern spinach and birds, the dipper and the crossbill.

The Forestry Commission served a Statutory Plant Health Notice to Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust ordering it to remove infected trees.

In October 2023 campaigners, who said the changes would create 'a post-apocalyptic landscape', launched a petition urging Sheffield Council, the land-owner, to challenge the SPHN and end the felling of trees.

[10] Yorkshire Water, which owns land adjacent to the nature reserve were also carrying out preventative measures to halt the spread of ramorum by felling trees.