Change your energy use
Energy used in buildings accounted for around 20% of total UK emissions in 2022. Reducing your household energy use by switching to a renewable energy supplier or purchasing a heat pump will help…
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Kingcombe's Wild Energy Project Report
A project update for everyone who donated to Kingcombe's Wild Energy Appeal in 2022
Wildlife Recovery Appeal - Kingcombe's Wild Energy
Giving Dorset's wildlife the power to reconnect and thrive
By-the-wind-sailor
These mysterious and beautiful creatures rely on warm ocean currents to ‘sail’ them around the world... not a bad life?
Climate emergency
Find out Dorset Wildlife Trust's view on the climate emergency and what we are doing to help wildlife
Bird's-nest orchid
The Bird's-nest orchid gets its name from its nest-like tangle of roots. Unlike other green plants, it doesn’t get its energy from sunlight. Instead, it grows as a parasite on tree roots, so…
Major fundraising appeal launched for an urgent wildlife recovery project at Kingcombe National Nature Reserve
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £135,000 for their Kingcombe’s Wild Energy project.
My sofa
Alfie has bucket loads of energy and needs the freedom and space to burn it off. A visit to his local nature reserve, Siccaridge Wood, with his two younger brothers is the perfect place for this…
Tackle the climate emergency
We are in the middle of a climate and nature emergency, and the two are inextricably linked. Climate change is driving nature’s decline, and the loss of wildlife and wild places leaves us ill-equipped to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to change. One cannot be solved without the other.
iSupplyEnergy aims to donate £25,000 to DWT
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce that £25 will be donated to wildlife in Dorset for anyone living in the BH postcode who switches to iSupplyEnergy, the affordable green energy…
Dorset Wildlife Trust objects to drilling for oil in Poole Bay
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has objected to the plans to drill an exploratory well for oil six kilometres out to sea in Poole Bay, in a letter written to the Environmental Management Team at the…
Defend Nature
Over recent days, the UK Government has launched an attack on nature, weakening the laws that protect our wildlife and making a U-turn on manifesto promises to be the greenest Government ever: reversing reforms to farming and making energy decisions that will worsen climate change.