Things to do
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Get involved with great activities around Dorset or in your back garden. You can discover more with our ideas below or visit our friends the Dorset Local Nature Partnership for wellbeing activities here.
More things to do
Wildlife Events
Come along to any of our wildlife events, and learn more about the amazing wildlife around you.
West Dorset Volunteer Work Party
Come and join us for some practical management tasks.
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Urban Wildlife Volunteers
Practical conservation work.
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Lorton Volunteers Conservation Task
Join us for our fortnightly practical tasks at Lorton Meadows reserve, restoring habitats for local wildlife.
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West Dorset Volunteer Work Party
Come and join us for some practical management tasks.
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South Dorset Volunteers
Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.
Brownsea Island Practical Volunteer Work Party
Join our Reserve staff in helping to manage this unique habitat. Tasks will include scrub clearance, island maintenance, tree thinning…
Ways you can help wildlife
How to build a bat box
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
How to conserve water
If we all do our part in conserving precious water supplies, we can make a huge difference for the environment.
How to make a bee hotel
Solitary bees are important pollinators and a gardener’s friend. Help them by building a bee hotel for your home or garden and watch…
How to attract hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
How to create a container garden for wildlife
Introduce more wildlife features into a small space using pots and containers