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.
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Wildlife Events
Come along to any of our wildlife events, and learn more about the amazing wildlife around you.
Urban Wildlife Volunteers
Practical conservation work.
West Dorset Volunteer Work Party
Come and join us for some practical management tasks.
Portland Volunteer Work Party
Join us for conservation work each month throughout winter, and help preserve Portland's rare limestone grassland.
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Urban Wildlife Volunteers
Practical conservation work.
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West Dorset Volunteer Work Party
Come and join us for some practical management tasks.
South Dorset Volunteers
Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.
Ways you can help wildlife
How to have an eco-Christmas
Whether you celebrate a big family Christmas, or you just give out a few cards to your friends and neighbours to wish them a happy time…
Change how you travel
Leave the car at home and cut your environmental footprint.
Change what you eat
Buy local produce, eat more plant-based foods and reduce your food miles to shrink your environmental footprint.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
Contact your MP
By writing to your MP or meeting them in person, you can help them to understand more about a local nature issue you care passionately…
Change your energy use
Energy used in buildings accounts for around 17% of total emissions. Reducing your household energy use by switching to a renewable…