Eco Coffee x Dorset Wildlife Trust

Building on its history as an organically managed farm, this remarkable landscape is now being restored and reimagined as a place where wildlife can thrive, natural processes can return and people can reconnect with nature.

Three years into Dorset Wildlife Trust's community rewilding project at Bere Regis and we are celebrating the introduction of free-roaming livestock to the site, the benefits of the landscape-changing Stage-0 river restoration work for wetland wildlife, an improvement in water quality, and the inspiring community efforts.

A haven for wildlife and particularly famous for its thriving population of endangered red squirrels, not to mention thousands of birds which live on the Lagoon, Brownsea offers fantastic opportunities for everyone to connect with nature and experience wilder landscapes.

The Dorset Wild Rivers initiative works across the three Dorset Catchment Partnerships - Poole Harbour, Stour and West Dorset and Coastal Streams to improve freshwater environments in partnership with stakeholders.

Although seals do not have any natural predators in Dorset, they face increasing pressures from environmental and human-based sources. Climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events and affecting prey availability and distribution; people getting too close to seals leads to disturbance and marine litter poses a risk of entanglement.

Eurasian beavers were once native to Dorset and are known as nature's ecosystem engineers due to their activities, such as dam building to create deep water in which they feel safe, having such a positive impact on the local environment. Beavers even have the potential to reduce flooding by slowing the rate of water during extreme rainfall events