Dorset Wildlife Trust

Mark Hamblin 2020VISION / Red squirrel in the snow

Go Wild this Christmas

Discover the perfect eco-friendly gift with a beaver, seahorse, barn owl or red squirrel email adoption.

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We protect Dorset's wildlife and wild places

Together with our 27,000 members, our volunteers and supporters, we are Dorset's largest nature conservation charity. We work to champion wildlife and natural places on our 40 nature reserves and through our work with others.

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James Burland / Trees at Bracketts Coppice

WILDLIFE APPEAL

Woodland Recovery Appeal

Woodland habitats are home to some of Dorset’s most spectacular wildlife species. But they are at risk.

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Our strategy for a Wilder Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust's strategy, ‘A Wilder Dorset by 2030’, explores the challenges facing Dorset’s wildlife and ecology and sets out what it aims to do to make more space for wildlife to adapt and recover and to enable all people in Dorset to find space and time for nature in their lives.

Find out more about A Wilder Dorset by 2030