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An Amber wildfire warning has been issued for Dorset & Wiltshire for this week. This is important for everyone, but particularly relevant for those of us living near to or visiting our heaths and forests. The weather conditions and dry vegetation mean any...

Are you passionate about nature and the outdoors? Do you love chatting to people? Do you want to make a difference to our heathlands? We are looking to recruit two enthusiastic wardens to join us over the summer period. You would be working in our heathland sites...

Our Firewise officer, Lin, was delighted to meet colleagues from The Henry Brown Community Centre, West Howe, to chat about how we can help support their local community. She talked about the Firewise project and how it can help local residents in the event of a...

We were kindly invited to join colleagues and friends in the BCP Council countryside and mitigation teams today, for a Christmas get together. We combined a bit of scrub and invasive pine clearance with a bonfire and baked potatoes. Not to mention lots of other...

Lin is our Firewise assistant and heads up the only Firewise project in the UK, working with communities to help reduce their risk from wildfire. From 11 to 14 November, she was attending the International Wildfire Conference in Aberdeen, where alongside colleagues...

The team were excited to join lots of other local organisations at careers fairs over the last 2 weeks. Last week 4 of the team headed to Poole for the Corfe Hills School Careers Convention and Sixth Form Open evening, and the previous week we were at Thomas Hardye...