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The UK’s farmers, gamekeepers and land managers are being urged to get involved in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count from 4–20 February 2022.

Storm Arwen brought down a very large willow tree at the attraction just outside Dorchester, but the damage has now been cleared.

Would you like to take part in planting trees to help create dozens of 70-acre woods in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022?

With a varied programme planned for the year, the club will restart at West Parley Memorial Hall on 25 January.

With COP26 having started in Glasgow this week, Dorset Wildlife Trust is keen to point out that there is a nature crisis in the county.

The deadliest months for New Forest livestock are November and December as days become shorter and the clocks go back.

It appears that the driver deliberately killed the birds and police would like to speak to anyone with dashcam footage.

The mute swan was found dead in Poole Park on Sunday 3 October and police are keen to speak to any witnesses.

Following years of decline in salmon on a Dorset river, numbers of smolts leaving the Frome to go to sea in 2020 were 40% up on the 10-year average.

Fordingbridge & District Horticultural Society has held its first meeting since 2020 and Roger Frampton gave a talk on growing orchids in the home.