How to help wildlife at school
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
Wild Woodbury was a hive of activity recently as pupils from Bere Regis Primary School came to visit. Their mission was to collect acorns to be planted on site at a later date, marking the…
The new natural history GCSE will tackle the biggest issue of our time – the loss of nature and our connection to it
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…
A student-led charity week of cake sales, tuck shops, fun sporting events, throwing sponges at senior staff in stocks, and a non-uniform day resulted in Turner House raising nearly £2000 for the…
The Small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…
The Heath bumblebee is not only found on heathland, but also in gardens and parks. It nests in small colonies of less than 100 workers in all kinds of spots, such as old birds' nests, mossy…
As a child growing up in Ghana, Patience never took an interest in what was going on in the garden. Now, she’s growing her own flowers and vegetables every week, both at the Centre for Wildlife…
Cross-leaved heath is a type of heather that likes bogs, heathland and moorland. It has distinctive pink, bell-shaped flowers that attract all kinds of nectar-loving insects.