A major wildfire broke out on Upton Heath last week, underlining the extreme fire risk currently threatening Dorset’s heathlands due to prolonged dry weather.

Dorset Wildlife Trust is thrilled to announce the launch of its Nature Reserves Fund, a new initiative to protect, enhance and expand some of Dorset’s most precious wildlife habitats.

Over 100 guests came together on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s newly acquired 827-acre site at Lyscombe on Friday 10 May to celebrate the largest single acquisition in the Trust’s history.

Juvenile sand lizards bred in captivity have been released on Winfrith Heath to attempt to restore the population of this rare species to a self-sustaining level. Initially 23 juveniles were…

Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £40,000 for its Woodland Recovery project, an urgent initiative aimed at restoring and regenerating woodlands across Dorset…

Dorset Wildlife Trust has launched a public fundraising appeal to raise £135,000 for their Kingcombe’s Wild Energy project.

Dorset Wildlife Trust is pleased to announce Wild Woodbury as the new name for its 170-hectare community rewilding project in the heart of Dorset.

On 6th September Dorset Wildlife Trust launched a major fundraising appeal for England’s first large-scale community rewilding project, on 170 hectares of land near Bere Regis purchased earlier…

More than 30 years after a national campaign to save ‘the farm that time forgot’, Kingcombe Meadows has been recognised as a gold-standard haven for wildlife, as it is declared England’s newest…

Wildlife lovers in Dorset and around the world can once again tune in live to watch a pair of barn owls nesting and raising their chicks on a nature reserve, near Weymouth.