Last Thursday a Galloway Steer cow was brutally attacked by a dog on the Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) Tadnoll Heath nature reserve, near Winfrith. The injuries to its face were so severe that it was put to sleep the following day.
The attack was reported to the police after a...
Animals love pumpkins and in the winter they are desperate for the food/nutrition that we can provide for them.
Pumpkins are ace.
Make a Snack-o-Lantern
This is one of the most creative ideas I’ve seen to recycle pumpkins. You can turn your jack-o-lantern into a snack-o-lantern for wildlife! It’s fairly easy to make, and...
Town Council adopts Ramblers Charter for Walking Neighbourhoods
Town Councillors have voted unanimously to adopt the Ramblers Charter for Walking Neighbourhoods, becoming only the second town council across England and Wales to do so.
The Ramblers is campaigning to improve neighbourhoods across Great Britain, to create towns and cities designed to...
Fun will be on offer this half term when a new nature trail opens. Â
The new trail in Thorncombe Woods, near Dorchester, is less than a mile-long and is suitable for off-road mobility scooters. Free trail guides are available.
The trail has been inspired by the best-selling picture book ‘The Lost...
Students at St Edward’s School have collected 12.8kg of honey in the first year of their Beekeeping Club sponsored by Hall and Woodhouse and The School Association.
As part of St Edward’s wide-ranging enrichment opportunities, students at the school have been given the chance to learn more about bees through...
The new 2019 State of Nature Report has been published revealing that the amount and distribution of the UK’s species has, on average, declined since 1970. Wildlife is thought to be suffering declines as a result of many factors, with the biggest impacts on nature coming from climate change,...
Seven Canada Geese carcasses have been found dumped on Dorset Council’s Blackdown Nature Reserve, near Hardy Monument.
The birds were killed and had their breasts removed sometime overnight on 29 September. The remains of the birds were left in a ditch, believed to be the work of poachers.
Cllr Ray Bryan,...
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) biggest ever campaign, Get Dorset Buzzing, received its 4,000th pledge at the Dorset County Show earlier this month. Now, Dorset’s largest wildlife charity has launched an appeal in an effort to Keep Dorset Buzzing, well beyond the end of the campaign.
Get Dorset Buzzing was...
Dorset Council is proposing a temporary extension to the former councils’ rules about dogs in public spaces in order to consult the public and introduce new Dorset-wide Dog-related Public Spaces Protection Orders.
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It is proposed that the existing Orders of former West Dorset, East Dorset, Purbeck and Weymouth &...
Let me introduce myself to those who may not know me, I'm Linda and since November 2017 I met and talked to thousands of people who visit Weymouth, Portland, Dorchester, Poundbury, Bridport, and West Bay.
It all started one cold wet and windy day on Weymouth Beach, as I walked...
