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EuCAN is a Community Interest Company (CIC) working in the UK and other countries of Europe to involve more people and communities in the conservation management of their local environment, by providing training and practical experience for young graduates, potential volunteers and contractors and therapeutic groups, in nature conservation and in sustainable land management.
South Chard Gravel pits - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers
South Chard Gravel Pits, nr Chard
We are back at this interesting worked out gravel pit today to carry out the routine scrubcutting on the open areas to prevent them closing in and to undertake some tree work to reduce the birch and willow trees that are shading the grassland areas.
Read more >Cutting bramble and thorn regrowth and burning up at Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve
Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve near Cattistock
We shall be continuing with our autumn/winter programme of bramble and other scrub control and will be burning the brash as long as the wind is suitable (from the east as forecast- ie blowing away from the A37)
Read more >Cowslips for the Duke! planting cowslips at our Duke of Burgundy sites in mid-Dorset
Higher Hill Plush
We are looking for volunteers to help us plant cowslips specially grown for this project on a number of sites in mid Dorset.
Read more >Opening up the grassland habitat in the Sydling valley for chalk downland butterflies
Lamperts Farm, Sydling St Nicholas
Today we will be clearing a band of bramble and thorn scrub which is threatening to suffocate the chalk downland at the foot of these slopes.
Read more >Bottom Coombe Quarry, Easton, Portland - cutting and clearing up Cotoneaster, clematis and bramble scrub.
Portland - Bottom Coombe Quarry, Easton
Today we shall be working on the Buddleia, Clematis and bramble scrub in the railway cutting amd on the western side of the site and moving the old piles of brash left during the summer .
Read more >Butterfly Conservation Dorset branch Annual Meeting in Cerne Abbas Village Hall
Cerne Abbas Village Hall
All the information is to be found on the Dorset branch of BC website. The meeting starts at 2pm. ALL WELCOME! https://www.dorsetbutterflies.com/events/
Read more >Cowslips for the Duke! planting cowslips at our Duke of Burgundy sites in mid-Dorset
Red Post Hill, Up Sydling
We’re looking for volunteers to help plant cowslips to boost the chances of our Duke of Burgundy butterflies in mid-Dorset! Will you join our team?
Read more >Wildflower meadow maintenance in Charminster
Charminster Community Field nr Dorchester
This week we will be carrying out the annual cutting of the grass and moving the arisings to the dump site in a corner of the field.
Read more >Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN
Monmouth Hill, Milton abbas
Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month.
Read more >South Chard Gravel pits - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers
South Chard Gravel pits - nr Chard
We are back at this interesting worked out gravel pit today (rescheduled from October 20th) - to carry out the routine scrubcutting on the open areas to prevent them closing in and to undertake some tree work to reduce the birch and willow trees that are shading the grassland areas.
Read more >Chainsaw refresher training course
Motcombe, nr Shaftesbury
This is a two day refresher training leading to a LANTRA certificate. one place still available.
Read more >Brown Hairstreak Egg Search Alners Gorse / Rooksmoor, Hazelbury Bryan
Alners Gorse Butterfly Rserve
This is the chance to take part in our annual Brown Hairstreak egg search for some or all of the day. It is a very valuable way to assess the status of this species on the two sites.
Read more >Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN
Monmouth Hill near Milton Abbas
Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month. If you are available to help us, your company will be hugely appreciated!
Read more >Volunteer workparty at Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve with Nick Purdew (BC SW area reserves manager)
Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve
An opportunity for volunteers to help with the management of one of Dorset's richest butterfly and moth sites! We will be using handtools, and an electric chainsaw when necessary.
Read more >Latest news
Duke of Burgundy butterfly habitat enhancement work - latest photos now on the EuCAN Flickr site
Another productive day at Bottom Coombe Quarry Wildlife Conservation site on Portland October 2026
Helping to clear the invading bramble thickets on the Spittles Fields at Lyme Regis October 2026