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…
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…
Today, The Wildlife Trusts have launched The Great Big Nature Survey. It’s a chance for everyone in Dorset, and across the whole of the UK and islands, to share their thoughts on nature and how it…
Despite concerns expressed by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and many local groups, Corallian Energy Limited were granted consent to drill the Coulter Appraisal Well in Poole Bay. The drilling was…
Beavers have bred in Dorset for the first time in over 400 years at Dorset Wildlife Trust's enclosed beaver site in West Dorset. Trail cameras inside the enclosure have captured images of a…
Wardens on Brownsea Island have reported sightings of over 3,700 of black-tailed godwits on the Brownsea Lagoon in December 2019 – a record for Dorset. Their numbers have remained high in January…
Despite secrecy over its operations, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has learnt that the Corallian Colter Exploratory oil rig is arriving in Dorset any day now to commence 38 days of drilling for oil…
We want to see a Dorset rich with wildlife, with 30% of land and sea managed for nature by 2030. This means making more space for nature in our urban areas. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (…
Simon has been restoring Wild Meadows for three years. By planting trees, digging a lake and sowing meadows, he is showing how quickly wildlife like otters, badgers and tawny owls can return, and…