The Visitor. Covering Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire
The Visitor. Magazine covering Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. Since 1983.
Somerset Wildlife Trust has been selected for the first time to take part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge – the biggest UK online match funding campaign, which helps charities raise funds for good causes. Continued investment is needed for the Trust’s nature reserves on the Avalon Marshes. Full story: Read more
To support its on the ground efforts to secure the future of the county’s bats, Somerset Wildlife Trust is pleased to launch Saving Somerset’s Bats – an urgent appeal to raise £30,000 to strengthen habitats in three key areas in the county which support important bat populations – in particular several rarer species that we stand to lose in Somerset entirely unless action is taken now. Full story: Read more
Since the 1930s in the UK we’ve lost 97% of our wildflower meadows, and with them our critical pollinators such as bees and butterflies. To help reverse this decline, and to support the creation of a beautiful expanse of meadow to support Somerset’s bees and butterflies, Somerset Wildlife Trust has created the Perrymead Wildflower Project – which aims to harvest seed from flower rich areas and sow it on species poor areas to create enriched habitats to support more pollinators. Full story: Read more