Nature's undertakers
Discover the brilliance of burying beetles with Dr Ellie Bladon, an evolutionary ecologist based in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
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Mapping nature’s recovery
Dorset Wildlife Trust is working as part of the Nature Recovery Dorset network to restore, enhance and connect spaces for nature, bringing together people and communities to help create a more wildlife-rich county.
Nature and wellbeing
Improve your health and wellbeing through nature
Nextdoor Nature
As part of a national project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to leave a lasting natural legacy to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Nextdoor Nature aims to create a huge matrix of community-led rewilding projects in Dorset and across the UK, empowering people to take action for nature and to improve the greenspace where they live.
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
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.
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.
Be a part of nature’s recovery in Dorset
Dorset's wildlife and wild places need you. Nature is in trouble, and we need your help to make it thrive once more.
Speak up for nature
It's time to make nature's voice heard - talk to your local MP and councillors about the wildlife you care about.
Nature Journal Club
Develop a deeper connection to the natural world by creatively recording your relationship with nature in our fun and social club.
Nature Journal Club
Develop a deeper connection to the natural world by creatively recording your relationship with nature in our fun and social club.
Nature Journal Club
Develop a deeper connection to the natural world by creatively recording your relationship with nature in our fun and social club.