Category: Dorset Wildlife & Animals

When frost turns to silk

Jane Adams is looking for a rare woodland phenomenon: something fleeting, beautiful and unexpectedly personal My mum had the most beautiful snow-white hair. Touch it,...

A Wild Year at Dorset Wildlife Trust

Jack Clarke highlights a standout year for Dorset Wildlife Trust, with restored habitats, rising species numbers and strong public support From the opening of our...

A hive of progress as North Dorset’s Honey Bee Centre nears completion

Years of planning and volunteer effort have turned a corner of a Shillingstone field into a purpose-built Honey Bee Centre, with education firmly at...

A splash of yellow in December

Jane Adams enjoys her chance meetings with a grey wagtail, Wimborne’s winter dancer There’s a bird I always associate with the colder months. I shouldn’t,...

George Hosford’s had enough – and so has the Grumbler

What happens when the people who own the land stop caring about it? In this final episode of the year, George Hosford returns with...

CRT launches festive appeal to protect Britain’s hazel dormice

The Countryside Regeneration Trust (CRT) has launched its 2025 Christmas Appeal – and this year, it’s all about helping one of Britain’s most vulnerable...

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(Very) early mornings and stable fans were the heatwave drill for team TB

The weather forced a change in the yard schedule, says Toots Bartlett, but it was an opportunity to discover how the horses might cope...

Yetminster’s forgotten pioneer

In a Yetminster farmhouse, Benjamin Jesty pioneered vaccination decades before Edward Jenner claimed the breakthrough Stand in Yetminster today and it is hard to imagine...