Dorset Wildlife Trust’s annual fundraising walk this spring will be raising vital funds to help wildlife on land and sea. The popular event, re-scheduled for April following bad weather in the autumn, is an opportunity to enjoy some of Dorset’s most spectacular coastal scenery while raising much-needed money to protect...
This New Year, blow away the Christmas haze with a fun family day out at the Chesil Beach Centre’s January sale, or burn off some calories on a volunteering activity with Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT). Volunteering tasks range from getting dirty and up-close with practical conservation work on reserves,...
Dorset Police has been working alongside Natural England and the RSPB following two raptor persecution incidents in North and East Dorset.
Raptor persecution – which is one of the UK wildlife crime priorities and involves birds of prey – includes poisoning, shooting, trapping, habitat destruction and nest destruction or disturbance.
The...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is shocked and deeply saddened to learn the news that there will be a badger cull in Dorset this year, in a misguided attempt to control the spread of the devastating disease bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The conservation charity, with over 25,000 members will not allow...
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...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is advising anyone planning to visit one of its 42 nature reserves in Dorset to adhere to the government guidance for social distancing and to only use these sites as part of their daily exercise allowance. If the site is busy, we are asking visitors...
Yesterday evening (5th May) the first of five barn owl chicks hatched live on the Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) webcam. The remaining four eggs are expected to hatch any day now and over the bank holiday weekend.
The first egg was laid on 7th April, followed by four others with the final egg laid on 15th April. The...
