16 April 2024
Green Halo Partnership
The Green Halo Partnership vision:
to be a global exemplar of how our most precious landscapes can work in harmony with a thriving, economically successful community.
About the Green Halo Partnership
The National Park Authority set up the Green Halo Partnership in 2016.
Our vision is to be a global exemplar of how our most precious landscapes can work in harmony with a thriving, economically successful community.
We bring together businesses, universities, charities and communities to ensure our world class environment in and around the New Forest National Park flourishes as an integral part of our wider area’s thriving economy and society.
Why the 'Green Halo'?
The New Forest is one of Europe’s best sanctuaries for nature, situated in the busy south east of England and surrounded by Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Salisbury.
Beyond the National Park’s boundaries, from Cranborne Chase to Purbeck, the South Downs to the Solent, much of this part of southern England is internationally valued because of the quality of the natural environment.
Our Partnership wants to ensure that the natural environment is seen as an integral part of how we work and live.
Our ambition is not constrained by administrative boundaries, opportunities can come from all areas and all sectors in and around the National Park – hence the Green Halo.
By recognising the contribution our natural environment makes to the local economy and society, our Partnership wants to ensure that both the Park and its surroundings work to protect and improve that environment.
The benefits we get from our natural resources are not delineated by lines on maps.
The idea was born in the New Forest National Park, but the partnership wants to identify, value, protect and improve those services across a much wider geography, including land and habitats around the National Park.
The benefits of our natural systems reach well beyond our immediate geography. That is why our Partnership invites partners from Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Wiltshire, but the ‘Halo’ can stretch as far as we want it to.
What does the Green Halo Partnership do?
The Green Halo brings together organisations from across the public, private and third sectors to:
- Inspire by promoting best practice in protecting and enhancing natural capital and ecosystem services
- Encourage by developing and delivering new projects
- Support by helping to identify resources for projects and offering expert advice to assist in their delivery
- Inform by continuing to promote and publish research on natural capital, and by communicating its activities to local communities.
Green Halo Partnership themes
We take as our starting point the natural environment and the benefits that the flora and fauna, watercourses and landscapes of the New Forest National Park provides – its natural capital and ecosystem services.
These help clean our air, provide fresh water and natural food supplies, and benefit both our economy and our health and wellbeing.
The Partnership works to ensure that natural capital is not eroded and can therefore help us meet the needs of the economy and our communities, for mutual benefit. We want to ensure that the value of ecosystems services is recognised, and they are protected and improved.
We are focused on actions which will make a clear difference on the ground, falling under four themes:
1. Supporting the local economy
2. Improving health and wellbeing
3. Encouraging sustainable living
4. Enhancing the natural environment
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