BiPolar UK, the national charity, estimates that 1:100 of the population suffers from BiPolar disorder. Sometimes known as Manic Depression, this is a mental health illness characterised by significant mood swings including manic highs and depressive lows. Many are undiagnosed, and even those who are and who are receiving...
Another afternoon dominated by fungi, but with a fairly respectable bird list too.Click on the photos below to see the relevant iSpot page. You do not need to be enrolled in iSpot to view these pages. © Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Pestle Puffball?© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Slime Mould© Bob Ford/Nature Portfolio Mycena?© Bob Ford/Nature...
Dorset Wildlife Trust urges the Government to listen to Parliament after MPs backed a motion calling on the Government to abandon its planned badger cull. It was announced on Tuesday that pilot culling schemes in Gloucestershire and Somerset would be delayed until 2013, following a request from the farmers...
People can get up close to the wildlife of the River Allen without getting a toe wet, with the new Waterside screen in Wimborne. Liquid Gold, a film about the river made by world-renowned film maker Hugh Miles, will be the first to be shown in the town’s Allendale...
Ahead of a House of Commons debate on Thursday 25 October, Dorset Wildlife Trust is urging the Government to heed expert opinion and public feeling and call a halt to the imminent pilot badger cull in Gloucestershire and Somerset. DWT and Wildlife Trusts across the country say that the...
For once a targeted walk achieved its aim, as we set out to see a Ring Ouzel and, on arriving at the Westcliffs, pretty much the first bird we saw was indeed a fine male Ring Ouzel. After enjoying quite a prolonged view of the bird through the telescope...
A brand new production of Jack and the Beanstalk is coming to the Pavilion Theatre Weymouth in December 2012 directed and produced by The Magic Beans Pantomime Company, from Sevenoaks. The new producers ran the Panto Factor in September which was a huge success with the Grand Finale being...
Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched an appeal to help wildlife at risk in the county. Conservation work is under threat in the current economic climate, according to Dorset’s largest nature conservation organisation, which is now calling for public help for woodlands, bumblebees and the birds of Brownsea Island’s lagoon. Simon...
Local people are supporting the wildlife of Dorset’s River Allen by following a new guide for river users. Dorset Wildlife Trust’s new River Allen Users Guide is helping the community, landowners and fishermen to look after and enjoy one of Dorset’s most important chalk streams and protect some of...
Rare native elm trees on Brownsea Island are being protected under a new monitoring scheme in an effort to save them from Dutch Elm Disease. The smooth leaved elms Ulmus minor, survivors of the epidemic in the 1970s, are still at risk from the disease, prompting joint action by...
