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This year, Dorset Wildlife Trust celebrates its 50th anniversary. From very small beginnings in 1961 it has grown to become the largest nature conservation body in the county and has made notable progress in safeguarding Dorset’s wildlife and wild places. Find out more

Top tips from our Volunteering Manager about capturing those winter wildlife pictures

The ‘leaves’ on Butcher’s-broom (Ruscus aculeatus) are not what they seem. The true leaves of the plant are reduced to papery scales. The flat green ‘leaf-like’ appendages are in fact flattened stems (cladodes).

Shetland Cattle are taking the snow in their stride on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Upton Heath nature reserve.

New Year is the perfect time to start living The Good Life,  according to Dorset Wildlife Trust, with a range of sustainability courses at its very own smallholding, The Kingcombe Centre in west Dorset.

 

Sixty students from Bournemouth University joined staff and volunteers from Dorset Wildlife Trust for a pre-Christmas 'spruce-up' on Sopley  Common nature reserve.

Gregarious and widespread, starlings are one of the most common British garden birds

People have very strong views about wind turbines ­ on both sides of the debate... 

Dorset's leading conservation organisation is marking its half century with a challenge to everyone who loves the county and its wild places.

Conservationists have discovered an important haven for one of Dorset’s most endangered marine animals in Swanage and Studland bays. A survey this year identified the area as showing all the signs of being a nursery ground for undulate rays, one of the prettiest and smallest of our British skates and rays.