The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre are pleased to announce they are this year’s recipients of the Royal Geographical Society’s Award for facilitating fieldwork and encouraging scientific and environmental engagement within the community. The awards are presented annually in recognition of those who have made outstanding contributions within the sphere of geography. The Centre are very…
Iron pyrite, better known as fool’s gold, is a mineral with a superficial resemblance to gold, and can be found in the fossils and rocks of the Jurassic Coast, in particular around Charmouth. Some of the most beautiful ammonites are those pyrite fossils that have been polished up to shine like jewels. Fool’s gold has…
Jurassic Coast Trust member Professor Sir Ghillean Prance is a renowned botanist and Amazon explorer. After a prodigious career at the New York Botanical Garden, he became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1988. Sir Ghillean has lived on the Jurassic Coast since retiring. We caught up with him at his home in…
No sooner than we sent out the first in our home learning activities, than Jurassic Coast fans Saba and Dex in the Netherlands took up our first challenge. Saba (5) and Dex (8) live in Papendrecht, near Rotterdam, and have taken advantage of the lockdown to create their own Jurassic Park landscape. “Dex always had…
“From caverns deep underground to sky-high mountains, the rocks and stones all around us are ancient.” Folk Tales of Rock and Stone is the new book from Devon author and Jurassic Coast Trust ambassador Jenny Moon. A storyteller with a passion for rocks, Moon’s collection of short stories weaves together history and imagination, drawing attention…
In line with the latest government guidelines, the Jurassic Coast Trust is urging people to stay at home and avoid busy coastal sites. Whilst it is important to have time in nature, it is simply not worth putting yourself and those in your community at risk of infection. “The thought of not being able to…
Lulworth Fossil Forest will be reopen to the public from Saturday 21st March 2020. Take the opportunity to rediscover the 145 million-year-old ‘forest’ – a key part of the Jurassic Coast’s walk-through-time story. Closed after a big rockfall in 2015, the forest has 97 new steps and railings on a route that leads off the…
Important Message from Jurassic Coast Trust from Lucy Culkin, CEO Dear all As the latest news rolls out and the effects of Coronavirus become a reality, we have made the difficult decision to cancel all Jurassic Coast Trust events which were scheduled to take place between now and the beginning of July. We will monitor…
There’s something quite special about Spring on the Jurassic Coast. Stretching from East Devon to Dorset, the days are becoming longer, we start to shake off the chill and embrace the great outdoors again. And the Jurassic Coast is arguably one of the best places to do so. You can enjoy the lesser crowds and…