A rare seaside moth has been discovered on Brownsea Island nature reserve for the first time. Moth trapping by Dorset Wildlife Trust wardens on the island has already revealed over 700 species but the latest find was a particular surprise – Gymnancyla canella – found only in sandy coastal...
A dead whale was found on a remote shore near Rope Lake Head, Purbeck last week. Local resident and author of Purbeck Revealed, Ilay Cooper, made the surprise discovery of the 13.6m (44.6ft) mammal whilst walking along the shore at low tide. Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Marine Conservation Officer, Emma...
Politicians, musicians, comedians and actors are just some of the big-hearted celebrities who have donated original drawings for a unique auction in aid of Dorset’s wildlife. The Wild Art Auction will be launched online in November by Dorset Wildlife Trust, featuring more than 50 sketches of wildlife especially created by...
Dorset Wildlife Trust is calling for volunteers to help with practical conservation at Powerstock Common. The new monthly Sunday work parties are being led by DWT warden Steve Masters to help protect the outstanding wildlife and habitats of one of the most important reserves in Dorset. Covering nearly 300 acres,...
Another afternoon dominated by fungi, but with a fairly respectable bird list too.Click on the photos below to see the relevant iSpot page. You do not need to be enrolled in iSpot to view these pages. © Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Pestle Puffball?© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Slime Mould© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Mycena?© Bob Ford/Nature...
Dorset Wildlife Trust urges the Government to listen to Parliament after MPs backed a motion calling on the Government to abandon its planned badger cull. It was announced on Tuesday that pilot culling schemes in Gloucestershire and Somerset would be delayed until 2013, following a request from the farmers...
People can get up close to the wildlife of the River Allen without getting a toe wet, with the new Waterside screen in Wimborne. Liquid Gold, a film about the river made by world-renowned film maker Hugh Miles, will be the first to be shown in the town’s Allendale...
Ahead of a House of Commons debate on Thursday 25 October, Dorset Wildlife Trust is urging the Government to heed expert opinion and public feeling and call a halt to the imminent pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire and Somerset. DWT and Wildlife Trusts across the country say that the...
For once a targeted walk achieved its aim, as we set out to see a Ring Ouzel and, on arriving at the Westcliffs, pretty much the first bird we saw was indeed a fine male Ring Ouzel. After enjoying quite a prolonged view of the bird through the telescope...
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched an appeal to help wildlife at risk in the county. Conservation work is under threat in the current economic climate, according to Dorset’s largest nature conservation organisation, which is now calling for public help for woodlands, bumblebees and the birds of Brownsea Island’s lagoon. Simon...
