Looking at Brownsea © Ross Hoddinott/2020VISION
Protect wildlife and wild places
How does Dorset Wildlife Trust look after Dorset?
We work with stakeholders across Dorset, including landowners, farmers, businesses, councils and charities, to promote and protect wildlife and wild places. You can find out more below.
Marsh Harrier © Andrew Parkinson/2020VISION
Managing Sites of Nature Conservation Interest
Dorset Wildlife Trust works with landowners to survey and provide guidance on the management of 1300 SNCIs across the county
Avocets at Poole Harbour © Bertie Gregory/2020VISION
Planning and development
We work with local planning authorities to promote positive outcomes for wildlife and important habitats, however, you can also play a part in influencing development proposals for the benefit of our environment.
Farming and land management
We believe that investing in landscapes and wildlife benefits everyone. Discover our vision for a prosperous environment, which is good for the economy and for our wellbeing.
European badger (Meles meles) cub sniffing the air, Summer, Dorset, United Kingdom © Bertie Gregory/2020VISION
Badgers and bovine tuberculosis
We are strongly opposed to the badger cull. Find out why here.
I feel that we should all be completely obsessed with it [the natural world]. If you take it away then we have nothing left.
The River Stour, early morning mist and frost, near Wimborne Minster, Dorset © Ross Hoddinott/2020VISION
Dorset's Wild Rivers
Dorset Wild Rivers is a major river and wetland restoration project, led by Dorset Wildlife Trust and Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group South West, with funding from Wessex Water, focussing on the Frome and Piddle Valleys and the chalk stream tributaries of the Rivers Stour, Allen, Tarrant and the South Winterbournes.
Drinking Shelduck © Luke Massey/2020VISION
Catchment partnerships
Working in partnership with Wessex Water and other partner organisations, we are implementing improvements to protect and improve the health of the water environment in all rivers, streams, wetlands and ground waters that drain the Stour and Poole Harbour Catchments.
