Election Focus: A Dose of Nature
Ahead of the General Election, Imogen Davenport, Director of Nature-Based Solutions, writes about the importance of nature for health and wellbeing.
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Planning for Nature: Will reforms to development rules help wildlife and the economy?
Dorset Wildlife Trust's Director of Nature-based Solutions, Imogen Davenport, considers the implications of the Government's latest announcements on planning and development for wildlife…
Why the Planning Bill needs urgent repairs
Dorset Wildlife Trust's Director of Nature-based Solutions, Imogen Davenport, looks at why the new planning laws need amending if they are to meet their aims.
Climate and nature - cracking two crises at once
As the COP26 Climate Change Conference gets underway, Imogen Davenport, Director of Nature-based solutions reflects on the effects of climate change on wildlife that we are seeing here in Dorset…
Biogenic reefs
Hard structures created by living creatures, biogenic reefs provide a home for a variety of marine life.
Scarlet Lady
This brilliant red and white sea slug would make the perfect nudibranch for a Christmas card image or perhaps a football team mascot!
Common bird's-foot-trefoil
Common bird's-foot-trefoil has a vareity of names that conjure up some interesting images: 'Eggs and Bacon', for instance! Its small, yellow, slipper-like flowers can be seen in all…
Breadcrumb sponge
This sponge is found on rocky shores around the UK and looks like a thick bready crust (if you use your imagination a bit!).
My focus
For her A-Level Photography project, Emily-Jane is taking images of the landscapes that she loves; combining her two passions – photography and wildlife – so she can express herself in creative…
First beaver kit born in Dorset for over 400 years
Beavers have bred in Dorset for the first time in over 400 years at Dorset Wildlife Trust's enclosed beaver site in West Dorset. Trail cameras inside the enclosure have captured images of a…
Beaver Blog July 2022
Beavers have successfully bred in Dorset for the first time in over 400 years. Trail cameras inside our enclosed site have captured images of a young beaver, known as a kit and its mother,…
Farmland
Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with…