The articles below are the views of the authors and may not represent the views of the whole LNP Board
Durwyn Liley, Dorset LNP Board Member, Footprint Ecology Dogs are often beloved companions, treated as part of the family and they enhance many people’s lives through the company they provide and the health benefits they bring. Dogs can also cause problems for nature and wildlife, and there is a difficult balancing act at many countryside …
Lee Hardy, LNP Vice Chair and Natalie Poulter, Dorset Catchment Partnerships Co-ordinator Thanks to Defra’s Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme (NCPGS), the Wytch Farm Landscape Access & Enhancement Fund and a range of partner contributions, the Dorset Peat Partnership is currently delivering £1.1m worth of peatland restoration, working across 16 sites covering a total …
Lee Hardy OBE JP, LNP Board Member, Dorset Catchment Partnerships, Dorset Coast Forum & Poole Harbour Commissioners SeaHives are shelters designed to provide refuge for marine animals, somewhere to live, grow, breed and thrive, thereby increasing the total diversity and density of marine life in a local area. The concept was born from the experience …
James Carter, Dorset’s Nature Young Journalist As part of the Great Big Green Week, we asked our Young Journalists to write a Letter to Tomorrow. With the busy exam period we weren’t sure if any of them would have time. James very kindly contributed the following letter. Dear 50 year old me, You’re reading this …
By Robin Clarke, James Carter, Lydia Norrish, Isla Crawford, Flora Pilkington, Ella Hague Heathland is one of Dorset’s most iconic and important landscapes. Characterised by swathes of purple heather and clusters of yellow gorse, this is more than just a picturesque environment. Heathland is one of our richest and most diverse ecosystems, a home for …
Will Bond, Alaska Environmental Contracting Ltd. I enjoy sharing food with others – whether salad or steak. But I absolutely hate being the only one eating while others watch me. Self-conscious, I know I lack finesse, so when we sing the Christmas carols, I cringe with sympathy and embarrassment when Good King Wenceslas does his …
Lee Hardy OBE JP, Chair Dorset Catchment Partnerships Poole Harbour is recognised internationally for its huge ecological importance and renowned and protected for its outstanding landscape, birdlife and fisheries. It is one of the largest natural harbours in the world and the largest microtidal estuary in Britain, exhibiting an enclosed lagoonal character with over 100km …
Luke Rake FLS, LNP Chair A developing theme in land management is the coming together of groups of farmers and landowners to work collaboratively to access not only funding, but also benefits for nature. Nature is not static, so creating nature recovery and food production practice at scale arguably allows the benefits of both to …
Pete Etheridge, Greenwood Ecology & Countryside Management and Dorset Coppice Group Coppicing has been practised in the UK for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. In 1905 (decades after the peak in coppicing activity), it was estimated that there was somewhere in the region of 230,000 ha of actively managed coppiced woodland within the UK …
Durwyn Liley, Footprint Ecology Speckled Footman might seem a bit of a nerdy subject for this blog – but this enigmatic species has got me hooked. The moth is Red Listed (critically endangered) and while it has probably always been rare, historically it was recorded from across Dorset and the New Forest. The Dorset Moths …
