Nature: Wildlife, Welfare and Pets - Dorset East

Portman hunt Dorset , look at how the huntsmen kicks the horse during the boxing day fox hunt.... They make out the horse's love it but it's far from the truth. https://www.facebook.com/river.read.37/videos/533158797188651/UzpfSTY2MjgyODIyNTpWSzo5OTAyMzM3MTQ1MDk0ODk/?multi_permalinks=990233714509489&notif_id=1546365061239657&notif_t=group_highlights

Problem Dorset Rural Police have refused to deal with road safety in regards to the Portman hunt who are placing road users at risk by galloping all over main roads, leading hounds onto main roads and not using the bridle paths. Dorset Police have claimed that hounds running all over the...

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to have some of its nature reserves available on Google Maps Street View, allowing nature enthusiasts to take a 360-degree tour of our nature reserves online.   Earlier in the year DWT was loaned a Google Street View Trekker camera for capturing imagery at...

Time to lock them up? A menace to society? Barbarism with an upper class accent? Surely these sad excuses for humans should be removed from polite society? https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/189255771969673/UzpfSTEwMDAwNDE4NzgyNzQwMjpWSzo5NDYzMTA2OTIyMzUxMjU/?multi_permalinks=946310692235125&notif_id=1540115008021588&notif_t=group_activity Douglas James

This October half term, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has some spooky wild events to get children out into nature at our visitor centres and nature reserves in Dorset.   The Kingcombe Centre is getting into the swing of Halloween with its ‘Spooky stories and Scary Bats’ event on Tuesday 23rd...

When monitors arrived, hounds were in an area of hedge next to a small field containing cows. The field was fenced off with electric fencing and clearly no trail had been laid there - even so, the huntsman Evo Shirley was on foot hunting the hounds. https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/1227761717362680/UzpfSTEwMDAwNDE4NzgyNzQwMjoyMTI0MTkyMTQ3ODMyNjQw/?multi_permalinks=2124192147832640%2C2123744494544072&notif_id=1538824074584188&notif_t=group_activity The hunt's whipper-in, Josh...

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has been working local fishermen to demonstrate responsible standards whilst caring for the marine environment in Poole Harbour.   Fourteen vessels working the clam and cockle fishery are now certified through the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS). This validation on industry-agreed best practise is thanks to a positive...

https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/1262068040601297/UzpfSTI4MDEyNjA4NTUyMDI1OTo5MzI0ODQ0NTAyODQ0MTY/?multi_permalinks=932484450284416%2C932461386953389%2C932377330295128&notif_id=1537755904433671&notif_t=group_activity This is the awkward moment when Portman Hunt master and huntsman, Evo Shirley, challenges monitors to return to a public footpath when they're on one. Then claims that the hunt have laid a trail through a six foot maize field, only to surpass himself by claiming fox-hunting isn't illegal. This is...

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce that Dan Bosence, Emeritus Professor Geology at Royal Holloway University of London, is coming to Dorset to give a presentation about newly discovered circular structures on the seafloor of Weymouth Bay.   The new images obtained by Dorset Wildlife Trust’s DORIS (Dorset Integrated...

Yesterday the Government published the Agriculture Bill. The recovery of wildlife in Dorset and the UK depends on an Agriculture Bill which enables farmers to create and restore natural habitats. Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) believes that now is the time for agricultural policy to lead nature’s recovery.   The Agriculture Bill...