Serious safety concerns here in Sherborne with badger traps being found just off the main road WHICH EVERYONE USES to and from work at all times of the day. Dog walkers here in Sherborne out and about walking their dogs as early as half five before work etc, many...
Starved Wood-sedge may not be one of the most striking plants to look at, but it is famed for not only having been one of the UK’s rarest plants, but also having made one of the most impressive comebacks. This shy plant of woodland glades was actually feared extinct...
Why all the secrecy surrounding the badger culls? What has the government got to hide? A year on, they still haven't released data on any of the thousands of badgers killed last year, so we're forced to use data from the Randomised Badger Culling Trial, the only large-scale scientific...
The Ropemakers in Bridport is hosting a day of music to raise money for Cupboard Love Food Bank, as part of “We Shall Overcome” a national weekend of gigs which will see over 250 concerts across the UK, and beyond, all under one banner. “We Shall Overcome’ is a community...
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has received sightings of the Portuguese man o’ war being found washed up on Chesil, Kimmeridge and Charmouth beaches this week. This follows sightings of the same creatures in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset recently. They are thought to have arrived on the South Coast via...
One word sums up September for the keen nature watcher; SANDPIPER! We expect common sandpipers regularly in autumn as they make their way south and a small number of green sandpipers are always likely to be around. Most years a number of curlew sandpipers are likely and so it...
Following an item on this morning's Farming Today about a Cornish farmer worried about intimidation by badger protection campaigners. It would be nice if the BBC stuck to facts and stopped broadcasting anecdotal claims by anonymous farmers:- Re Badger Culls, Interference with culls by badger protection campaigners I've campaigned...
More than 1,000 people have had their say about where and when dogs should be allowed in public places. West Dorset District Council has carefully considered the views’ of dog owners and the concerns of other residents who use public places such as parks and beaches. After considering 1,012...
This poor badger was a sad discovery in the first few days of this year’s culls. It wasn’t in Dorset, but the grisly find is a shocking reminder of the reality of the badger culls everywhere. He had suffered an injury so severe that his foreleg was almost severed....
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has launched a Crowdfunder campaign to establish a ‘WildHub’ for children at its Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve in Dorset. DWT urgently needs to raise £2,000 by 21st September through Crowdfunder in order to release a further £2,000 of funds from another donor. The creation of the...
