WED 1 THE GREAT HEATH VOLUNTEER WORK PARTY, 10am. The group will be visiting various Great Heath reserves & alternating between wildlife survey days & practical conservation/access tasks. The length of the day will vary depending on the day & activity, e.g. survey days will be much shorter. Please...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) are asking members of the public not to lift up ‘tin’s found on nature reserves. Legally protected reptiles use these for shelter, and disturbing protected species could result in breaking the law. Conservationists leave small pieces of tin, or...
After last year’s success, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has added additional dates to the ocean cruises event, to allow even more people the opportunity to see wildlife up-close from the ‘Purbeck Princess.’ The three hour cruises* will take place on Friday 19thJune and Saturday 27thJune for just £12 per...
...On 24th October 2014, two weeks before I was due to start my first job within donkey rescue and welfare education, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I saw it as an obstacle that I could overcome, but in March 2015 I learnt that the cancer had spread to...
MON 1 – WED 3 GRASSES & SEDGES: Learn the skills for identifying grasses & sedges together with making your own herbarium with Dominic Price. Cost R £280 (NR £199). Pre-booking essential – limited places. Book online at www.kingcombe.org or call 01300 320684. TUES 2 MOTH IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP,...
Members of a local Poole group, ‘Men’s Sheds’ have donated their time and skills to Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) by building over 50 bird boxes for children to use at DWT events. The group, which has only just been established, spend their time working on projects from restoring bicycles...
FRI 1 – IDENTIFY BIRD SONGS & CALLS, SUN 3 Celebrate Dawn Chorus weekend on this workshop learning the art of identifying bird calls & songs with Edward Jackson. Cost R £280 (NR £199). Pre-booking Booking essential – limited places. Book online at www.kingcombe.org or call 01300 320684. ...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and Poole Housing Partnership have launched a project to create a brand new wild flower meadow with the local community in Alderney West in Poole. This new project has received a generous donation of £1,500 funded by the ‘Grow Wild’ community project, which is part...
Illegal hunting, trapping and snaring etc is rife in Dorset but there are local groups that are regularly out and about trying to prevent the cruelty and destruction of wild animals. This often involves boots on the ground monitoring hunting activities and surveying wildlife cruelty hotspots. With the approaching...
Barbarism begins at homeLast year the artist Banksy burst into the Glastonbury Festival with his very clever moving art-piece called Sirens of the Lambs, which shows the screaming faces of lambs crying out from a truck bound for slaughter of the most unimaginably corrupt and vicious savagery. Michael Eavis,...
