Summer wildlife on Brownsea Island
Discover the wildlife that has been making Brownsea Island its home in Summer 2020.
Discover the wildlife that has been making Brownsea Island its home in Summer 2020.
After years of declining butterfly populations, a recent survey by the Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has found a record number of a rare butterfly species on the Upton Heath nature reserve.
Wardens on Brownsea Island have reported sightings of over 3,700 of black-tailed godwits on the Brownsea Lagoon in December 2019 – a record for Dorset. Their numbers have remained high in January…
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £135,000 for their Kingcombe’s Wild Energy project.
Last night, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and the Gardens Group celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wildlife Friendly Gardening Competition at the Castle Gardens garden centre, in Sherborne. The…
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £40,000 for its Woodland Recovery project, an urgent initiative aimed at restoring and regenerating woodlands across Dorset…
The Dorset Wildlife (DWT) Trust prize draw is returning for 2019, with some fantastic prizes for people who want to help support Dorset’s wildlife and wild spaces.
If you've signed up to Get Dorset Buzzing, you may have noticed that The Gardens Group is offering 10% off pollinator-friendly plants for each month of the campaign. In this blog, Mike talks…
A new website about Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) has been launched this week to highlight the important marine wildlife of Dorset. It aims to explain the complex and confusing system of Marine…
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a fundraising appeal to raise vital funds to protect Dorset's precious marine wildlife from plastic pollution.
We are encouraging people in Dorset to act locally to help fight the climate change and ecological crises we are facing by offering half price membership in January, to join Dorset’s largest…