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Dorset National Landscape Projects

The Dorset National Landscape Partnership has a small staff team who deliver a wide range of projects to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the National Landscape.

Working together

The Dorset National Landscape Partnership has a small staff team who deliver a range of projects to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the National Landscape. We work with a wide range of organisations, communities, businesses and landowners across the area – the success of our work is dependent on the people who farm, live and work here. Find out more about our projects:

Nature Calling

Art and engagement

Nature Calling national art project comes to Dorset

Dorset National Landscape becomes a major Hub in a new £2M ground-breaking national art project.

Sitting Spaces

Connecting with nature

Sitting Spaces

Inviting people to enjoy the countryside

FLAVOURS

Landscapes for all

FLAVOURS

FLAVOURS is a new project exploring Dorset's outstanding landscapes and food with diverse communities.

Nature Buddies Network

Connecting with nature

Nature Buddies Network

A coordinated network of volunteer Nature Buddies who help people overcome barriers to enjoy nature.

Stepping into Nature

Connecting with nature

Stepping into Nature

Working in partnership to enable everyone, particularly those that face barriers, to enjoy nature in fun, social and creative ways.

Wild Purbeck

Safeguarding wildlife

Wild Purbeck

Bringing people together to conserve and enhance Purbeck's valuable species and habitats at a landscape scale.

Purbeck Heaths Grazing Unit

Wild Purbeck

Purbeck Heaths Wilder Grazing Unit

Part of the Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve, creating wilder grazing to help nature survive and thrive.

Farming and Forestry

Working with farmers

Farming and Forestry

Supporting farming and landowners to maximise benefits for wildlife and landscape, including Farming in Protected Landscapes programme

Landscape Planning and Assessment

Outstanding landscapes

Landscape Planning and Assessment

Providing guidelines for landscape planning and management regarding the character and condition of the National Landscape.

Tourism and Visitor Management

Connecting people to place

Tourism and Visitor Management

Find out what we do to help local people and visitors explore, understand and engage with the landscape.

Purbeck’s Precious Past veteran tree project

'Purbeck's Precious Past' ancient tree project

Celebrating and securing the future for our veteran and ancient trees and associated wildlife in the Purbeck area

Dorset Community Tree Project

Restore and recreate

Dorset Community Tree Project

Supporting communities with their plans for planting and caring for trees in their patch

Reconnecting the Landscape

Restore and recreate

Reconnecting the Landscape

Working with the National Grid to enhance and reconnect the landscape in the Marshwood Vale, Brit Valley and South Dorset Ridgeway.

Picnic in the parks

Live well and love nature

Picnic in the parks

Beyond The Map

60th anniversary

Beyond The Map

Creatively Capturing the Char Valley

Dorset Food & Drink

Supporting local business

Dorset Food & Drink

Celebrating, supporting and promoting the great tastes of Dorset.

Council of All Beings

60th anniversary

Council of All Beings

Celebrating Dorset’s Wildlife with Schools

Talking Tent

Celebrating 60 years

Talking Tent

Inspiring conversations about landscape and people, the Talking Tent was set up as part of the Dorset National Landscape 60th anniversary celebrations and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Undergrounding of Powerlines

Enhancing landscapes

Undergrounding of Powerlines

Enhancing the Dorset National Landscape through partnership work with utility providers.

Art in the Landscape

Art and culture

Art in the Landscape

Working with arts organisations and artists to celebrate outstanding landscapes and forge deeper connection between people and nature

Rivers & Streams

Catchment approach

Rivers & Streams

Delivering the Catchment Based Approach in the West Dorset Rivers and Coastal Streams area.

Dorset Fingerpost Project

Restoration & maintenance

Dorset Fingerpost Project

Supporting communities to restore Dorset’s iconic and much-loved signposts

Dark Skies

Special landscapes, special skies

Dark Skies

Dark night skies are a special quality of the AONB and contribute to the areas sense of tranquillity and remoteness.

Dorset Pedal

Walks and Rides

Dorset Pedal

Rides and walks to explore, taste and enjoy the landscape

South Dorset Ridgeway

Ancient landscapes

South Dorset Ridgeway

Conserving and celebrating this internationally important ancient landscape

Would you like to help us?

Many of our projects are always looking for an extra pair of hands – not just practical conservation work but with surveys, organisation and promotion too.