Dorset Wildlife Trust

Tim Downton / Grey heron with eel at Lodmoor

2025 photography competition

Become a member (https://www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/become-member)

Make a donation (https://www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/support-us/donations-and-appeals)

Volunteer portal (https://dorsetwt.teamkinetic.co.uk/)

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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Stewart Canham / Avocet out on Brownsea lagoon

Brownsea Lagoon webcams

Enjoy watching the fantastic wildlife Brownsea Lagoon has to offer with the Tern Hide and Avocet Hide webcams - all from the comfort of your own home.

Watch the Brownsea Lagoon webcams

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

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Celebration and commemoration giving

Choose from a leaf or bird on our beautiful Memory Tree on Brownsea Island, or a plaque on our stunning boardwalk at the Fine Foundation Wild Chesil Centre.

Celebrate or commemorate a loved one