Dogs love to chase buzzing insects, but getting too close can be dangerous. It’s better to get your dog to leave bees and wasps alone as stings can cause allergic reactions.
Most insect stings will simply be painful or irritating for your dog, but being stung multiple times can...
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...
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 (DWT) is offering young people aged 18 to 25 years a once in a lifetime opportunity to discover more about Marine Protected Areas in the Franco-British Youth Forum taking place this autumn. The Forum will take place over two weekends, in Dorset in October and France...
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?
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Bees and butterflies are among the wildlife that desperately needs our gardens, according to Dorset Wildlife Trust, launching The Wildlife Friendly Garden Competition 2013. Now in its fourth year, the competition, sponsored by The Gardens Group, aims to recognise the increasingly important contribution gardeners are making to the conservation of...
A five-year programme of badger vaccinations has started on selected Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) nature reserves to demonstrate that there is a safe, humane alternative to badger culling. DWT wants to see the eradication of the devastating disease Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) and understands the serious implications for farmers who...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching its new Wild Futures programme – an exciting opportunity for young people, aged 14-25 to actively get involved with wildlife conservation in the Weymouth and Portland area. The aim of the project is to give young people the chance to learn about local...
Before we could start this walk in one of my very favourite parts of Dorset we had to overcome a considerable obstacle - a locked gate. Possibly inspired by the nearby Olympic Games the group used a variety of vaults, somersaults and backflips to get to the other side...
Nearly 11,000 badgers killed this year, with more roll outs proposed for next year, and a continuation of the ones that should have ended this year after 4 years of badger killing already. Most of the West Country will be shooting a supposedly 'protected species' next year, with appalling...
