FRI 1 – IDENTIFY BIRD SONGS & CALLS, SUN 3 Celebrate Dawn Chorus weekend on this workshop learning the art of identifying bird calls & songs with Edward Jackson. Cost R £280 (NR £199). Pre-booking Booking essential – limited places. Book online at www.kingcombe.org or call 01300 320684. ...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and Poole Housing Partnership have launched a project to create a brand new wild flower meadow with the local community in Alderney West in Poole. This new project has received a generous donation of £1,500 funded by the ‘Grow Wild’ community project, which is part...
Illegal hunting, trapping and snaring etc is rife in Dorset but there are local groups that are regularly out and about trying to prevent the cruelty and destruction of wild animals. This often involves boots on the ground monitoring hunting activities and surveying wildlife cruelty hotspots. With the approaching...
Barbarism begins at homeLast year the artist Banksy burst into the Glastonbury Festival with his very clever moving art-piece called Sirens of the Lambs, which shows the screaming faces of lambs crying out from a truck bound for slaughter of the most unimaginably corrupt and vicious savagery. Michael Eavis,...
This May, Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Kingcombe Centre is celebrating the sounds of spring by inviting people to come and experience the unique and special songs of the dawn chorus on DWT’s Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve in west Dorset. On Friday 1st May – Sunday 3rd May, the Kingcombe...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is pleased to be taking part in the Bournemouth Natural Science Society’s (BNSS) open day on Saturday 11th April, with a series of wildlife gardening workshops. DWT experts will be available all day, on hand to offer wildlife friendly gardening advice, with hands-on workshops,...
In a project led by Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) and supported by the Mayor of Dorchester, Dorset’s county town will receive the first ever community grass free lawn to be planted in the UK on 6thApril (Easter Monday), in Dorchester’s Borough Gardens. Since September 2014, DWT has distributed 1,500...
Throughout the UK, not least here in West Dorset, areas of agricultural land and brownfield sites are being used to produce renewable energy from solar farms. Somerset-based British Solar Renewables recognise that these sites offer an unparalleled opportunity to actively promote biodiversity and have commissioned a West Dorset organisation...
Dorset Wildlife Trust’s (DWT) Chesil Beach Centre is delighted to be hosting a book signing with Dorset resident, Professor James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Theory and inventor of the microwave oven. The book signing, which will take place at 2pm on Friday 27th March at the Fine...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is asking for help to build boxes for vulnerable barn owls in Dorset, as part of the barn owl appeal which has so far raised nearly £29,000 since June 2014. DWT now needs more boxes to provide shelter and safety to threatened barn owls, and...
