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Josh has been lucky to grow up in this beautiful landscape. We’re here to make sure his children can do the same.
Josh has been lucky to grow up in this beautiful landscape. We’re here to make sure his children can do the same.
An internationally important heathland with views across Poole Harbour, Corfe Castle and the Isle of Purbeck. A beautiful nature reserve to visit at any time of the year.
A fire on the evening of Wednesday 22nd April has damaged 200m2 of Upton Heath nature reserve. The likely cause is a disposable BBQ (pictured below on the site). The fire was put out by a Fire…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (10th-16th May), and at Dorset Wildlife Trust we are delighted that the theme for 2021, is nature. After a particularly hard year, we are probably all…
This World Mental Health Day, Dorset Local Nature Partnership Manager, Maria Clarke highlights the benefits of connecting with nature has on our mental health and wellbeing.
Maria Clarke, the Dorset Local Nature Partnership Manager, talks about the importance of connecting with nature and the benefits this has to our mental health on Mental Health Awareness Day.
Dorset Wildlife Trust has been working with Participation People to train eight fantastic young people (14-17) in journalism skills. They have been producing a series of blogs, social media posts…
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching the Greengage Project, a wellbeing ‘hub’ designed to offer a new lease of life to people in local communities, through ecotherapy and therapeutic…
Having volunteered with Dorset Wildlife Trust since 2001, Ian and Georgie Laing share their experiences from 20 years of dedicated volunteering for Dorset's wildlife. We're saying a huge…
The Small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…