Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has launched an appeal to help protect Dorset’s most precious wildlife-rich habitats from damaging development. The most recent example of a development which is threatening a protected wildlife site, is the proposal to build a large solar station on Rampisham Down SSSI (Site of Special...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is being supported by the Sherborne Literary Festival on Friday 16th October, with talks from RHS qualified garden journalist Kate Bradbury, award-winning wildlife writer Mark Carwardine, and the special advisor to the Prince’s Rainforest Project, Tony Juniper. At 10.30am Kate Bradbury will be giving...
A network of leading solicitors across Dorset has partnered with Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) to offer a free Will writing service to its 25,000+ members throughout October 2015. For those wishing to make a willor update an existing one, this is the ideal way to secure your future and...
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT’s) Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre is holding a series of events with local authors, to celebrate the wildlife, history and lesser-known stories about the Weymouth and Portland area. Visitors to these intimate ‘Tea with an Author’ events will be hearing from the authors about...
Dorset MEP Ashley Fox is calling for better enforcement of rules regulating the importation of puppies into the UKThe UK-based Dogs Trust has presented evidence to Mr Fox about diseases being brought into the UK from countries like Lithuania and Romania and the worrying ease in which commercial transporters...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is holding a post-summer beach clean at Worbarrow Bay on Sunday 20th September and is asking for people to come and help remove litter which is harmful to marine wildlife. Marine birds often ingest items such as shiny bottle tops, thinking they are fish or...
The badger cull has been rolled out to this county and the killing zone is North Dorset in particular. The target for number of badgers killed is at least 615 and as much as 835 badgers shot through either cage trapping or free shooting. The work is carried out...
Vaccinating a Dorset badger After approximately 7-10 days the traps were set by attaching a piece of string to the stone and to the door of the trap. Any badger pulling away the stone to reach the peanuts would activate the trap, and the door would close. Once our...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is shocked and deeply saddened to learn the news that there will be a badger cull in Dorset this year, in a misguided attempt to control the spread of the devastating disease bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The conservation charity, with over 25,000 members will not allow...
A seahorse sighting has been made in Studland Bay by a Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) marine awareness officer. The sighting confirms that seahorses are alive, well and breeding in Studland Bay this summer. Over recent years the sightings of these enigmatic animals have been few and far between. This...
