Photography Competition 2024

The Photography Competition for 2024 is NOW OPEN

Send your entries, up to 3 for each category, LandscapesPlants and Fungi, and Wildlife and each category will be awarded 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended for both Adult and “Young Explorers”.

All entries must be taken within Dorset or Hampshire during 2024, and you must be a ‘Young Explorer’ to enter that section of the competition.

***New for 2024*** Young Explorers can now also submit a short video depicting nature.

Please read carefully the attached Terms & Conditions before submission.

As in previous years, we will print a Photobook with the winners and all the entries to the competition.

The deadline is November 30th 2024 and you can email all your photos to: photo@bnss.org.uk along with any enquiries you might have.

There will be an Awards Ceremony held at BNSS 0n 26th April 2025 to which all entrants will be invited. Winners will be contacted in April 2025, prior to this event.

I wish you good luck and every success.Tony Grant (Photography Chair)

Bournemouth Bug Show 2024

We are pleased to announce that Bournemouth Natural Science Society will have a stand at this year’s Bournemouth Bug Show.

The event will take place on Sunday 2nd June 2024 at Hamworthy Club, Magna Road, BH21 3AP.

The Show stPoster for Bournemouth Bug Show with a crowd of cartoon bugsarts at 11:00am and closes at 4:00pm.

Enter the Raffle for a chance to WIN a year’s FREE MEMBERSHIP of BNSS!

Visit the Bournemouth Bug Show Website for full information and to BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Great Big Dorset Hedge

Many of you will have attended the talk about the Great Big Dorset Hadge Project given by Julie Leah on Tuesday 3rd October.

More information about the project and how to volunteer for it was given in Julie’ last slides which you can view here