Nature: Wildlife, Welfare and Pets - Dorset West

In January 2019, Dorset’s biggest conservation charity, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT), is offering half price membership* for supporters wanting to help wildlife in Dorset for the year ahead. The wildlife charity needs to grow its 27,500 strong network of support even further in 2019 in order to continue carrying out...

Portman hunt Dorset , look at how the huntsmen kicks the horse during the boxing day fox hunt.... They make out the horse's love it but it's far from the truth. https://www.facebook.com/river.read.37/videos/533158797188651/UzpfSTY2MjgyODIyNTpWSzo5OTAyMzM3MTQ1MDk0ODk/?multi_permalinks=990233714509489&notif_id=1546365061239657&notif_t=group_highlights

Problem Dorset Rural Police have refused to deal with road safety in regards to the Portman hunt who are placing road users at risk by galloping all over main roads, leading hounds onto main roads and not using the bridle paths. Dorset Police have claimed that hounds running all over the...

Dog wardens in West Dorset, North Dorset and Weymouth and Portland have won recognition from the RSPCA for providing a ‘gold standard’ in animal welfare for their stray dog service. North Dorset District Council, West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Councils’ dog wardens have achieved a 2018...

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is delighted to have some of its nature reserves available on Google Maps Street View, allowing nature enthusiasts to take a 360-degree tour of our nature reserves online.   Earlier in the year DWT was loaned a Google Street View Trekker camera for capturing imagery at...

Time to lock them up? A menace to society? Barbarism with an upper class accent? Surely these sad excuses for humans should be removed from polite society? https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/189255771969673/UzpfSTEwMDAwNDE4NzgyNzQwMjpWSzo5NDYzMTA2OTIyMzUxMjU/?multi_permalinks=946310692235125&notif_id=1540115008021588&notif_t=group_activity Douglas James

This October half term, Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has some spooky wild events to get children out into nature at our visitor centres and nature reserves in Dorset.   The Kingcombe Centre is getting into the swing of Halloween with its ‘Spooky stories and Scary Bats’ event on Tuesday 23rd...

When monitors arrived, hounds were in an area of hedge next to a small field containing cows. The field was fenced off with electric fencing and clearly no trail had been laid there - even so, the huntsman Evo Shirley was on foot hunting the hounds. https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/1227761717362680/UzpfSTEwMDAwNDE4NzgyNzQwMjoyMTI0MTkyMTQ3ODMyNjQw/?multi_permalinks=2124192147832640%2C2123744494544072&notif_id=1538824074584188&notif_t=group_activity The hunt's whipper-in, Josh...

Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has been working local fishermen to demonstrate responsible standards whilst caring for the marine environment in Poole Harbour.   Fourteen vessels working the clam and cockle fishery are now certified through the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS). This validation on industry-agreed best practise is thanks to a positive...

https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeWitness/videos/1262068040601297/UzpfSTI4MDEyNjA4NTUyMDI1OTo5MzI0ODQ0NTAyODQ0MTY/?multi_permalinks=932484450284416%2C932461386953389%2C932377330295128&notif_id=1537755904433671&notif_t=group_activity This is the awkward moment when Portman Hunt master and huntsman, Evo Shirley, challenges monitors to return to a public footpath when they're on one. Then claims that the hunt have laid a trail through a six foot maize field, only to surpass himself by claiming fox-hunting isn't illegal. This is...