© Sam Rose West Dorset Wilding seeks trustee with business expertise to support landmark nature recovery project We are seeking a new trustee with strong business, financial, or governance experience to join its board. Established in 2021, we are currently heading up one of the UK’s flagship ‘Landscape Recovery’ schemes, supported by Defra, to reverse the decline in biodiversity and restore natural systems through positive changes to the way the land is managed at scale. The work is...

© Sam Rose Statement about wild beavers in the wider Brit Catchment (Brit Valley) Statement date 18/07/25 ​ Staff at West Dorset Wilding have recently started working on an application to explore the reintroduction of wild beavers into the Brit Valley. This will be a long process that will involve discussions with local communities and other interested parties before a full licence application would be submitted to Natural England, probably in the summer of 2026. The decision will then lie...