Category: Dorset Wildlife & Animals

Our insect balance sheet is in the red

Few indicators are as revealing as insects. After decades observing them, DWT’s Hamish Murray has a sober assessment of Dorset’s natural balance For more than...

Reviving a forgotten boundary in the Dorset hills

Reviving this ancient parish boundary, estimated to be around 300 to 400 years old, has been something special. Stretching in a straight line over...

Osprey pair return to Dorset for fifth year

A pair of ospreys central to Dorset’s reintroduction project have returned to the county for the fifth consecutive year. Female CJ7 and male 022 –...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane Adams watches the quiet lives of Dorset’s snow leopards: the ashy mining bee From Pentridge Hill,...

Public consultation opens on beavers’ return to Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust is inviting residents, landowners and businesses to have their say on the potential return of wild beavers to parts of the...

The skylark at Badbury Rings

Jane Adam’s chance encounter with an injured skylark at Badbury Rings becomes a meditation on loss, renewal and the fragile return of spring If it...

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Never been to the races? Me neither…

My first visit to a racecourse – on a windblown and wet November day in Wincanton – wasn’t at all what I expected, says...