Knoll Gardnes will hold a charity wildlife discovery day next month KNOLL Gardens have announced details of a charity wildlife discovery day on Tuesday, August 3, where visitors can enjoy a guided garden walk or a self-guided wildlife discovery trek. Experts will be on hand to teach visitors about a vast array of insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals that chose to eat, dine, shelter and live at the site near Wimborne. It will support the Knoll Gardens Foundation, Dorset Wildlife Trust, the RSPB and the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC). Foundation chairman Rowena Jecock said: “We look forward to welcoming people to the garden to discover for themselves how Knoll Gardens’ ethos of sustainable, naturalistic planting can create a haven for wildlife.
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Tree replanting scheme following forest fire branded mediocre by animal conservation charities
Forestry England, which is responsible for the site, is rapidly replanting thousands of non-native pine trees
21 February 2021 • 4:55pm
A tree planting scheme by Forestry England has been branded as mediocre by animal conservation charities following a fire that destroyed a vast area of woodland.
The government agency has been criticised for apparently ignoring the advice of the wildlife organisations with its restoration strategy for Wareham Forest in Dorset after 540 acres of it was destroyed in a blaze last summer
The 3,700 acre area of protected heathland and woodland is one the few places in the UK where all six native reptiles exist, including the endangered smooth snake and sand lizard.