Wimborne Swift Group
Formed in 2023, Wimborne Swifts is a community group from the Wimborne and Merley area with a shared love of swifts.
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Dorset Beaver Management Group
The Dorset Beaver Management Group is a group set up to provide advice and support on free roaming beavers in Dorset.
Dorset Bat Group
Our role is to help and protect Dorset's bats. We are a membership organisation and are always looking for like-minded people to help us care for bats in Dorset.
The Gardens Group: pollinator plants in summer
If you've signed up to Get Dorset Buzzing, you may have noticed that The Gardens Group is offering 10% off pollinator-friendly plants for each month of the campaign. In this blog, Mike talks…
Volunteers' Week: Leading the volunteer group at Broad Oak
At the Broad Oak Orchard near Sturminster Newton, there is a local volunteer group who help the wardens to maintain this beautiful pocket of old orchard - Tony Stables leads the group.
Our priorities for the new UK Government
The wildlife we have in the UK is incredible, with species found nowhere else on Earth. But decades of pollution and habitat loss has destroyed the places they call home and driven wildlife into chronic decline. Shockingly, 1 in 7 species in the UK is now at risk of extinction.
Water stick insect
The water stick insect looks just like a mantis. An underwater predator, it uses its front legs to catch its prey. Its tail acts as a kind of 'snorkel', so it can breathe in the water.…
Focus on: Insect Decline and the Great Yellow Bumble bee
DWT’s President, Dr George McGavin, is an entomologist, author, academic & television presenter who is passionate about insects. In this article (which can also be found in the DWT summer…
New report reveals that insect decline will have ‘far-reaching consequences’
A new report commissioned by Wildlife Trusts concludes that drastic declines in insect numbers will have far-reaching consequences for wildlife and people. The report, ‘Insect declines and why…
Beavers living on the River Stour and the formation of the Dorset Beaver Management Group
Recent evidence indicates that beavers are now living on the River Stour in Dorset. Beaver feeding signs have been discovered in several areas along the Stour and are a clear sign that beavers are…
Intent to act for nature’s recovery needs to be upfront in the Queen’s Speech
The Wildlife Trusts have long called for ambitious new laws that aim to turn this around and put nature into recovery, and we hope the next week’s Queen’s Speech will mark another significant…
Action for Insects
Follow the advice in our Action for Insects guide and create an insect-friendly garden that is teeming with wildlife.