Connect with nature during Mental Health Awareness Week
Did you realise that Mental Health Awareness Week begins on Monday 10 May and is being hosted by the Mental Health Foundation?
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Shops urged not to sell disposable barbecues
In Dorset there is an average of 400 fires on heathlands and forests every year and very often disposable barbecues are to blame.
Donations to be doubled if charity hits funding target by Thursday
Conservation charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is raising funds to support its most ambitious tracking project yet.
Dorset springs into life with a dawn chorus
There is a day for everything so it won’t surprise you to learn that International dawn chorus day is Sunday 2 May.
Wildfire warning for Dorset
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service fears that dry conditions could lead to wildfires spreading quickly across the county.
Appeal to get volunteers back into the New Forest and to raise funds
Not only is it hoped to raise much needed funds to preserve the New Forest, but more volunteers are needed to sign up.
“Stop feeding other people’s horses,” says woman who fears her pony ate a roast dinner
A plea for a new law to protect horses against well meaning passers by who feed other people’s horses has been called for after the owner of a mini Shetland pony is convinced he ate a roast dinner.
Footage of Dorset beavers released by Dorset Wildlife Trust
Following the introduction of a male and female beaver onto a site in Dorset in February 2021, exciting new footage of the animals has been released.
Dead birds of prey and firearm found in East Dorset
Following the discovery of a dead red kite, the police, together with other agencies carried out a warrant at a property in East Dorset.
RSPB celebrates breeding success of seabirds in 2020
According to the RSPB, last year saw a huge number of threatened seabirds successfully breed along England’s south coast.