Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is disappointed to hear that applications have been submitted to Natural England to carry out badger culls in Dorset later this year. DWT supports and promotes alternative solutions to help control the spread ofthe devastating disease Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). To demonstrate alternatives tobadger culling, the...
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Big Wild Chesil event will be returning to the Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre on Sunday 2nd August, with its biggest line-up of events and activities to date. Throughout the day, visitors and families will be invited to enjoy various events, from exploring the wonders...
Dorset MEP Ashley Fox is questioning the rules regarding the importation of puppies into the UK. It follows Devon based charity the Dogs Trust’s investigation into vets and breeders in Lithuania and Romania, and the worrying ease in which commercial transporters can bring puppies into Great Britain under a scheme designed...
To celebrate the theme of ‘record breakers’ in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching a new family trail on Brownsea Island and a new challenge for children to complete whilst spending some wild time in Dorset. Super Squirrel’s record-breakers trail is being launched at...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to welcome its newest patron, local resident and life-long member, Professor James Lovelock. Amongst many things, Professor Lovelock is the inventor of the first device to detect CFCs in the atmosphere, originator of ‘The Gaia Theory’, author of seven books, and a Dorset...
SAT 1 ROCKPOOL RAMBLE, 2.30 – 4pm, Fine Foundation Marine Centre, Kimmeridge. Celebrate Marine Week. Join us at the best rockpooling site in Dorset. Short walk involved. Weather dependent. £3 adult/£1.50 child.Chesil Beach Centre, halfway along the A354 between Weymouth and Portland. Post code: DT4 9XE. Phone 01305 206191...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is asking for help from members of the public to ensure the continued protection of heathland and the wildlife habitats in it, by joining the ‘Heathwatch’ scheme. Heathwatch was set up in consultation with Dorset Police, Dorset Fire and Rescue and the Urban Heaths partnership...
The online wildlife recording site ‘Living Record’, developed in Dorset for use anywhere in the country, has reached 500,000 records for 6,800 species across the UK. Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is one of many local conservation organisations championing the system. DWT’s Great Heath Living Landscape project is encouraging its...
Working in an animal sanctuary would be many people’s dream job, and now for one lucky young person there is a rare opportunity to join an apprenticeship at the Margaret Green Animal Rescue Centre near Bere Regis. The apprenticeship vacancy has come up at the centre in Winterborne Kingston...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching a new conservation project to help declining wildflowers in the county. The wildlife conservation charity is aiming to raise £20,000 to ensure this vital work can go ahead. Plants provide an essential part of our ecosystem and a whole host of wildlife is...
