Wildlife
Discover wildlife
Learn more about Dorset's unique habitats, adopt or find out about our native species or have a wildlife question answered, maybe you'd like to take some actions to help wildlife? Our wildlife pages have what you're looking for.
Helping wildlife
There are many ways you can help native wildlife, including by encouraging wildlife into your garden, or by becoming a member and protecting wildlife and wild places in your area. Explore our pages below for wildlife advice and to support wildlife through our virtual adoption schemes.
Other ways you can help wildlife
Contact your MS
By writing to your MS or meeting them in person, you can help them to understand more about a local nature issue you care passionately…
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…
How to clean nestboxes and bird feeders
Nestboxes can harbour parasites so it is good practice to take them down at the end of the season and give them a clean. Likewise it is…
How to provide water for wildlife
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
How to make a hedge for wildlife
Hedges provide important shelter and protection for wildlife, particularly nesting birds and hibernating insects.
How to plant a tree
It might surprise you, but even the smallest of gardens can accommodate a tree!
