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Monday, September 16, 2024
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching a brand new volunteering programme, giving local people the opportunity to make a difference for wildlife on some of the newly acquired Great Heath Living Landscape sites in East Dorset. From May to August 2014, 124 people volunteered an impressive 1,332 hours of...
A new training programme ‘Wild Paths’ has been awarded £501,100 of National Lottery funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), under its Skills for the Future programme, allowing five Wildlife Trusts in the South West to train 30 aspiring conservationists over the next three years.   The scheme is designed...
Once you dive into the world of chicken keeping, its not long before you realise they poo, and a lot!  Chickens produce huge amounts of manure and on average about a quarter of a pound per day! You are going to need to get rid of this manure somehow...
This is wonderful. https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1144274188250882049
Steps to halt the abuse and cruel exploitation of horses and donkeys are set out in a report from British MEP Julie Girling which was approved today by a key committee of the European Parliament.As her package of measures for equine welfare received the approval of the EP's Agriculture...
Poole Harbour Commissioners, Borough of Poole and Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) were delighted to launch the Holes Bay Nature Park in Poole on Thurday.   The Nature Park is a new initiative to bring together landowners, local communities and local businesses to enjoy and help to look after this...
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...