Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is appealing for more red squirrel adoptions, to help fund essential maintenance work on Brownsea Island and protect their habitat for another year. The adoption scheme allows wildlife lovers to know they are directly helping a threatened species in Dorset. Brownsea Island provides one of...
“Everyone at BCP Council is truly devastated over the fire that destroyed 16.7 hectares of Canford Heath on Saturday. The timing of the incident is incredibly upsetting due to our nesting birds, and other species that were using the heathland to welcome new life into the world. Volunteers and...
Guinea Pig Awareness Week aims to educate public about the pets’ needs
The RSPCA is tackling a large rise in the numbers of guinea pigs who are being given up by their owners or cruelly abandoned.
Overbreeding of guinea pigs and the ongoing impact of the cost of living crisis, as...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is pleased to announce the Wild About Wimborne event is taking place at Minster Green, Wimborne on Saturday 20th September from 10.30am – 3.30pm. There will be a whole host of fun activities going on throughout the day, including face-painting, storytelling, children’s crafts, rush weaving...
This swan and her cygnets should fill us full of joy. The cycle of life that is nature.
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A pair of wild Ospreys have hatched young at a secret nest site in Poole Harbour, which is the first to hatch in southern Britain for 200 years. The successful hatching is a result of an Osprey reintroduction program that’s being carried out by Dorset based charity Birds of...
A group of fifteen local amateur artists have worked together to produce a stunning display to compliment the new artificial rockpool in Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Fine Foundation Wild Seas Centre, at Kimmeridge.
The panel, mounted by the visitor centre’s indoor rockpool, is populated with seashore creatures including hermit crabs,...
The Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) ‘Go wild in your garden’ event, in partnership with Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown, will be held on Monday 27th October, to help local people to learn about wildlife friendly gardening. This event is part of The Great Heath Living Landscape, which aims to...
A new campaign has been launched in Weymouth to raise awareness amongst ‘crabbers’ about the correct way to care for Common Shore Crabs (Carcinus maenas) and to crab in a way that is more kind to marine wildlife. Crabbing is a popular summer activity in Weymouth for visitors and...
We residents from all over Weymouth and Portland, Dorset would like the Weymouth and Portland Borough Council to reconsider the recent change to local Bylaws regarding Weymouth Beach, specifically those relating to the reduced period when dogs are permitted on most of the town beach. The Bylaws we are...
