Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching an urgent campaign to raise money to allow its winter hedgerow maintenance work to continue in Dorset. Hedgerows provide habitat and food for up to 3,000 species of wildlife, including dormice, bats and hedgehogs. The wildlife charity needs to raise £30,000 to ensure work such...
Children are invited to get spooky and wild this October half term with a great selection of events and activities at Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) visitor centres across Dorset. At the Kingcombe Centre in west Dorset, the Kids Club on Tuesday 25th October will be hosted by local artist...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is excited to learn that a seal photographed at Portland Bill twice over the last few days, is also known in Cornwall. The female grey seal, named, ‘Molar’ was recorded by Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) in St Austell Bay in November 2014, and...
This was our beautiful sixteen month old Labrador Tess just two weeks ago, after she won four rosettes at the local fun dog show.. Yet just yesterday Tess was fighting for her life with heart failure for the second time in six months. Unfortunately, in April this year we...
Residents of Dorset can soon once again live peacefully and at ease knowing that the slaughter of badgers is now stopping. Hundreds of badgers will have been slaughtered without mercy in Dorset , backed by the government and defended by the NFU. The NFU claims that slaughtering badgers is...
Volunteers from the Richmond Fellowship group based in Poole will be hanging up their spades for the final time this month, after 8 years of volunteering with Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT). The group have given up their time to take part in a wide variety of vital conservation work,...
Mark Doggrell huntmaster of the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hunt has evaded prosecution for a second time. Last month he appeared in Court on a GBH charge when he ran over a hunt saboteur whilst driving his horse at 15 miles an hour. Despite video evidence the jury did...
SAT 1 TEA-TIME GUIDE TO EVERYTHING CHESIL, 2 – 3.30pm. A slightly more relaxing way to find out about the famous Chesil Beach & its wildlife. Join our Dorset Wildlife Trust wardens for tea & cake from Taste* café, at the Chesil Beach Centre, while they talk about...
A donation by Dorset-based gorilla conservation charity Gearing up for Gorillas (G4G) has provided much needed practical support to an orphaned mountain gorilla facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The latest donation of £900 has provided fridge-freezer capacity at the Senkwekwe Centre for orphan mountain gorillas in...
In a collaboration between more than 50 nature conservation organisations, including the Wildlife Trusts, the 2016 State of Nature report* has revealed that half of the UK’s native species are in decline, with 15% facing extinction. Many common species like the song thrush, house sparrow, hedgehog and native bluebell...
