Wildlife programme maker Simon King: "I urge the people of Dorset to rise to the £50 Challenge." Photograph by Stewart Canham.
LOVERS OF Dorset are being asked to raise £50 each this year, to mark the 50th anniversary of Dorset Wildlife Trust.
Cash will go into the Dorset Wildlife Fund and will help to buy land, restore wild places, manage nature reserves, and develop educational facilities.
Simon Cripps, chief executive of Dorset Wildlife Trust, said: “We need to be fit at 50 to take this work forward in the face of challenges such as spending cuts, climate change and population pressures.
“We are asking everybody who cares for this county to raise just £50 for The Dorset Wildlife Fund during 2011; that’s £1 for every year that we have been looking after local nature.”
Dorset Wildlife Trust began in 1961 as the Dorset Naturalists’ Trust.
Dorset Naturalists’ Trust had 306 founder members, and didn’t get to lease its first nature reserve until 1962.
Dorset Wildlife Trust now manages 42 sites and has more than 25,000 members.
Wildlife programme-maker Simon King is Patron of Dorset Wildlife Trust’s 50th Anniversary.
He said: “The UK has some of the most magnificent, sensual and fulfilling natural phenomena in the world.
“However prickly the gorse and forceful the blackbird’s song, it’s vulnerable.
“I urge the people of Dorset to rise to the £50 Challenge and help protect the nature of this wonderful, extraordinarily diverse part of England.”
To join the challenge, visit www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/50for50 or ring 01305 264620.
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