We have had a request from Darren Cook of the National Trust for transect walkers on three sites, all in Purbeck.

Help is needed walking: 

• Ailwood Down 
• Corfe Common 
• Langton Westwood (from mid August)

Transect walks are undertaken at specific places, using set routes, and a walk is carried out each week from the beginning of April to the end of September. Most walks have a number of walkers who share the weeks between them depending on what dates they can each do. You need to have basic butterfly identification skills, but we can usually get someone to help you initially and you can find out what species have been seen where on the walk in the past, which is a good clue to what you might see.

If you are able to help with the walks above, please let us know via our website contact form: [email protected] as soon as possible; even if you can only give limited assistance, please come forward: it all helps.

They are really lovely walks in a gorgeous part of Dorset.