Joanna O'Donnell

Assistant editor

Edits the Dorset Echo's New Arrivals; Trader of the Week; Pub of the Week ; Looking Back and Obituaries section.

Edits the Dorset Echo's New Arrivals; Trader of the Week; Pub of the Week ; Looking Back and Obituaries section.

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Do not feed or pet Dorset's woolly pigs!

This month, pigs have again been put out onto part of the Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve (NNR). Grazing with cattle, ponies and pigs is crucial in ensuring that the diversity of wildlife across the heaths can thrive. The woolly pigs will roam the central section of the NNR across the expanse of Hartland Moor, Stoborough Heath and the Arne peninsula. The pigs root and dig in the soil which helps to create patches of bare ground, improving the habitat for many of the species which make a home on the heathlands.