Wildlife-friendly gardening in February
Large or small, your garden or green space can make a real difference to local wildlife and the way you choose to care for your garden matters. Collectively, wildlife-friendly green spaces act as…
Large or small, your garden or green space can make a real difference to local wildlife and the way you choose to care for your garden matters. Collectively, wildlife-friendly green spaces act as…
There are plenty of small actions we can take to benefit wildlife, but where do you start? In our new blog series Wilder Communities Assistant, Mitch Perkins shares some simple tips so that you…
Nudibranchs, also known as sea slugs, are much like their land-based relatives that you may spot in your garden. But, unlike your regular garden slug, the nudibranch can incorporate the stinging…
Ever wondered what regenerative farming is and how it compares to other farming approaches? Vicki Hird, The Wildlife Trusts’ new strategic lead on agriculture, looks at this farming buzzword and…
Kate talks about what she's seeing in her garden this time of year and asks whether your garden is good for pollinators?
Last year as part of the Get Dorset Buzzing campaign we wrote a series of articles about what to do in your garden for each of the months in spring and summer. Our Community Conservation Officer…
Buy local produce, eat more plant-based foods and reduce your food miles to shrink your environmental footprint.
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
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,…
On 8 February 2021, a pair of adult beavers were released into an enclosed site in West Dorset as part of a scientific study looking at the impacts that beavers have on their environment. Project…