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Dorset Wildlife Trust

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Dorset Wildlife Trust

Dorset Wildlife Trust Annual Review 2024–2025

26,928 members; 700 volunteers; 21,461 total volunteer hours; 2,862 volunteer days; 96,000+ visitors across 4 visitor centres (Wild Chesil 40,690; Wild Seas Kimmeridge 48,387; Kingcombe 6,286; Brownsea 31,370 in managed area)
Key Metric 1
163 hectares and 15 peatland sites restored; 500 hectares of land impacted through Species Survival Fund across 18 nature reserves; 165 hectares of river habitat improved; 75 juvenile sand lizards reintroduced; 5 new ponds and 17 restored
Key Metric 2
10 priority species recovered through Species Recovery Programme; 1,000 trees planted; 150kg of wildflower seed harvested and sown across 26 new meadows; 97% of past conservation trainees secured employment in sector; 7 traineeships funded in 2024/25
Key Metric 3
26 new meadows created across 35 landowner sites; 97% of conservation trainees secured employment; Brownsea Island welcomed 31,370 people to managed area; Sopley Common dry scrapes yielded 77 heath tiger beetles including one in a brand new scrape
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