To celebrate Dorset Food Week, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to announce the launch of a new app, designed as an offline tool to help members of the public make informed decisions when buying and eating seafood. The ‘Fish Advisor’ app, available on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon,...
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre will be holding its annual festive ‘Christmas Bazaar’ on Sunday 29th November from 10am – 4pm to raise money for local wildlife. Books, jewellery, homeware, children’s toys, local arts and crafts – all inspired by local wildlife and the natural...
To boost local marine conservation work, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) will be launching its new Seahorse Adoption scheme at the 2016 County Show on 3rdand 4thSeptember 2016. The new Adoption scheme comes after it has been identified that marine wildlife in Dorset is struggling. In response to this,...
Officers investigating the theft of Tinkerbell the cat in Bournemouth are issuing CCTV images of the suspect.
At around 11.55pm on Monday 1 July 2019 a man was seen to walk to the entrance of Super Clean on Wimborne Road in Winton, pick up Tinkerbell from outside the front door...
Dorset Wildlife Trust is holding its annual ‘Wild About’ event at The Town Hall in Wareham on Saturday 29th June. Activities and events will also be held in the Corn Exchange and the Quay, where kids and adults can get involved to learn about wildlife with some hands-on activities....
Brownsea Island, owned by the National Trust, has been declared Britain’s favourite nature reserve by the BBC Countryfile awards. Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has leased and managed half the island as a nature reserve for over 50 years. DWT manage an impressive 101 ha (256 acres) nature reserve with an...
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 Wildlife Trust (DWT) is giving children in Dorset an opportunity to be wild this summer, with a host of wildlife themed activities and events in its visitor Centres and nature reserves across the county. Over at the Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre, discover the ‘Peculiar Plankton of the...
A rare inland sighting of an arctic breeding wading bird, the grey phalarope, has been recorded on the largest of six new ponds which have recently been created on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Tadnoll and Winfrith reserve. Classed as ‘scarce’ in the UK and rarely found so far in-land,...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is supporting an online petition initiated byThe Wildlife Trusts’ President Emeritus, Simon King OBE,calling for the withdrawal of licenses that have been issued by Government to cull badgers, particularly in Dorset. Badger culling is a deeply flawed method for controlling the spread of the devastating bTB...
