Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has received a report of a rare leatherback turtle sighting near the Shambles Bank off Portland on Sunday 25th August by local residents Mike Lewis and Keith Moore. (…

To celebrate Dorset Wildlife Trust’s biggest ever campaign, Get Dorset Buzzing, the wildlife charity is offering 25% off life membership prices until the end of October.

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce that the FREE Wild About Chesil family fun day, which is sponsored by Wessex Water, will be held on Sunday 11th August from 10am – 4pm.

Last night, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and the Gardens Group celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Wildlife Friendly Gardening Competition at the Castle Gardens garden centre, in Sherborne. The…

Volunteers have been donning their waders, wellies and wildlife identification skills to help monitor the health of rivers in Dorset this summer as part of the new Extended Riverfly Scheme.

Professor James Lovelock, is a life member and patron of Dorset Wildlife Trust. Amongst many things, Professor Lovelock is the inventor of the first device to detect CFC’s in the atmosphere,…

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce that on Friday 19th July, Sculpture by the Lakes in Pallington, near Dorchester, will be donating its entrance fees to DWT to help continue…

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to receive a generous donation of £1,500 from the proceeds of the spring plant sale which was held within the grounds of Mapperton House and Gardens this…

Dorset Wildlife Trust is delighted to learn that all 41 of the proposed Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in England, have been designated. This includes six sites in Dorset. MCZ is a type of…

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has received reports of dolphin sightings off the Dorset coast in recent weeks and wants to raise awareness of the care that water users should take to avoid…