May 13, 2022
Paul Attwell, the Urban Heaths Partnership team manager, was at the 12th National Heathland Conference in Suffolk yesterday where he talked about the wildfire reduction work we’ve been doing. It was a really interesting and productive day and an opportunity to...
May 11, 2022
Working with our partners, today sees the return of our #Operation Heathland Campaign and we’re asking for your help. This year we have celebrity support and are asking everyone to create and share their own photos and video clips across social media to say why our...
May 6, 2022
Two enthusiastic seasonal wardens have joined the UHP team for the summer, Sally Pegg and Phil O’Keefe. They’ll be working on behalf of Dorset Council, wardening, monitoring and engaging with the public. Say hello if you meet them out and about. Sally has a background...
May 3, 2022
Partners from Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, Firewise UK, the BCP Council ranger team and the Urban Heaths Partnership came together today to provide information to residents local to the devastating fire on Canford Heath on April 23. They were joined...
Apr 25, 2022
Early evening on Saturday 23 a wildfire swept across Canford Heath in Poole, decimating 16.5 hectares. Around 80 firefighters eventually managed to get the blaze under control by around 10pm but were hampered by high winds and the tinder dry vegetation. The flames...
Apr 11, 2022
The Dorset Dogs team is proud to have been part of ‘Celebrating Canines and the Countryside’ – a week of events and activities dedicated to dogs and the outdoors, hosted by SCCAMP. From 26 March to 1 April the team were involved in a programme of events designed...
Apr 11, 2022
On 5 April around 3ha of Town Common at St Catherine’s Hill, Dorset were set on fire; heathland fires are unfortunately all too common on the nature reserves around Bournemouth and Poole and can cause immense damage to the habitat and the creatures that live in them,...
Apr 1, 2022
From April, eight arty birds will make their home around Shell Bay to raise awareness of an exciting project that’s coming to Studland in the autumn. Young artists from local youth groups and schools have painted the giant birds to help explain what the project is...
Mar 7, 2022
This year sees the return of our Operation Heathland Campaign run by the Urban Heaths Partnership (UHP), a drive to ask all visitors to our heaths and forests to help us protect them. This year we have celebrity support and are asking everyone to create and share...
Aug 2, 2021
This year to help look after Dorset’s precious heathlands, Firewise UK (Dorset), Dorset Dogs and the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service have teamed up to launch the K9 Firewise Patrol Volunteer Scheme. If you are out and about on the heaths over the bank...
Mar 1, 2021
March marks the start of the ground-nesting bird season and as the pressure from visitors to our open spaces has increased during lockdown, so has the pressure on the creatures that live in them. Dorset’s heaths are home to some of our rarest and most threatened UK...
