Volunteers' Week: Volunteering at Lyscombe
Monday 2 June - Sunday 8 June 2025 is Volunteers' Week, a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank volunteers for all they contribute to our local communities, the voluntary sector, and…
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Volunteers' Week: Volunteering at the Wild Seas Centre
Monday 2 June - Sunday 8 June 2025 is Volunteers' Week, a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank volunteers for all they contribute to our local communities, the voluntary sector, and…
Lyscombe Ancient Monuments
Following on from our previous blog about the ongoing works at Lyscombe nature reserve, Senior Heritage Planner Emily Taylor is back with an update from the team in relation to the ongoing…
Planning Bill Puts Dorset’s Precious Nature at Risk
Dorset Wildlife Trust's Chief Executive, Brian Bleese, discusses why the UK Government's current Planning and Infrastructure Bill poses such a threat to nature.
Disappointment over Rejection of Chalk Stream Protection
In our latest blog, Dorset Wildlife Trust's Chief Executive, Brian Bleese shares his disappointment over the government's recent decision to reject an amendment to the Planning and…
Use your senses this 30 Days Wild
Explore and enjoy the outdoors this 30 Days Wild by trying a sensory adventure
Ocean with David Attenborough
Dorset Wildlife Trust's Marine Policy and Advocacy Manager, Peter Tinsley, reviews David Attenborough's groundbreaking new film 'Ocean'.
Lyscombe Ancient Monuments
In March 2024 Dorset Wildlife Trust and Natural England purchased Lyscombe Farm – a 335 hectare landholding of upland chalk grassland, scrub, ancient woodland and meadow in the Dorset National…
Nature's undertakers
Discover the brilliance of burying beetles with Dr Ellie Bladon, an evolutionary ecologist based in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
Planning by numbers
The time it can take to build out developments granted planning permission is too long. The Wildlife Trusts’ head of land use planning, Becky Pullinger, discusses why.