Award winning artists have been taking the plunge to show the magic of our seas. The extraordinary work of the winners of The Wildlife Trusts’Underwater Art Award goes on show in Dorset this month, highlighting the urgent need for Marine Conservation Zones. The award, established in Dorset in 2007 in...
Portland Westcliffs © Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Carline Thistle, click on the image to go to its iSpot page A very cold and windy morning on Portland but we did see a few birds heading north that could conceivably have been the first of the spring migrants. Most were Meadow...
Dorset’s largest seafood wholesaler is launching an innovative labelling scheme to support Dorset Wildlife Trust’s campaign for Great Dorset Seafood (GDS). Samways Fish Merchants Limited, based in Bridport, have pledged to label all seafood supplied by fishers working a Dorset Port and approved by the campaign, demonstrating provenance and traceability...
Poole-based Routes to Roots has offered motivational outdoor activities to the homeless since 2009. This provides one day a week of interesting and worthwhile work in the conservation area over a number of weeks. Its current project is at Holton Lee, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, whichcovers 350...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) condemns a potential badger cull in the county, announced by Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson MP, as a reserve pilot cull area in case of problems with either of the proposed cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset. DWT is keen to find an effective, long term solution...
Since 13 January temperatures in Poole have dropped to 0° or below on a number of occasions. As a result the Poole Outreach and Support Team (POST – Routes to Roots in partnership with Bournemouth Churches Housing Association) has triggered its Severe Weather Emergency Provision (SWEP). SWEP provides rough...
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...
Routes to Roots Newsletter Spring 2013 is now available on the R2R website. The newsletter contains articles on the charity's work with the homeless and recently housed in Poole, statistics on those using its services and the support given by individuals, companies and religious groups.. For your copy, visit:...
Dorset Wildlife Trust is encouraging young people to get out with their cameras or mobile phones to capture winning wildlife this spring. With the first frogspawn and butterflies of the year already spotted, the conservation charity wants your spring pictures for its monthly photographic competition for under-18s. The Pat Dolbear...
A new group for a FRACK FREE DORSET has been formed At a meeting in Dorchester on 15th January 60+ local people came together to form a broad-based, non-political coalition of groups and individuals concerned about the possibility of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) coming to Dorset. As accessible...
