The Great Big Dorset Hedge
The Great Big Dorset Hedge is a DorsetCAN campaign to map, plant, expand, extend and join up sections of hedgerow around and across Dorset into multiple corridors that promote biodiversity and help wildlife of all sorts (birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, wildflowers, trees, fungi) to flourish across the county.
Read on for more details
Read our campaign Strategy for 2022 and beyond.
See our Great Big Dorset Hedge Poster
Contact us if you're interested in helping
Read on for more details
Read our campaign Strategy for 2022 and beyond.
See our Great Big Dorset Hedge Poster
Contact us if you're interested in helping
Imagine a Great Big Dorset Hedge, made up of a network of connected, well-managed hedgerows, stretching across Dorset, north to south and east to west, so that every community has an opportunity to get involved.
We want the initiative to catch people’s imagination and for it to take shape alongside the hedgerow.
Imagine gaps or lost connections in a Great Big Dorset Hedgerow being planted up, in many cases by local tree planting groups with the young and old working side by side, connected by a common desire to see more hedges and trees in Dorset.
Imagine the GBDH helping people to feel more connected with the places where they live and work, with nature, and with their communities through a shared scheme that actively helps nature recovery in Dorset.
Imagine helping communities to plant and look after more hedgerow trees in the GBDH, encouraging them to talk about them, to celebrate their companionship and the many benefits they bring us and the natural world.
There is no defined, preferred or single route for the GBDH. In fact the more wandering and diverse its routes, the better for a network of natural connections.
It might take a generation for it to stretch the length and breadth of the county.
It might take a generation for it to stretch the length and breadth of the county.
