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New Forest Trust media release: Vital funds are needed to help a successful New Forest conservation volunteer scheme continue – and this week any public donations will be doubled. The New Forest Trust has teamed up with the National Park Authority (NPA) to launch an appeal to get its 600 volunteers back outside to help care … Continued

Following the success of last year’s New Forest Ambassador scheme, the New Forest National Park Authority is once again calling on local people to help support its work protecting this internationally-important area for nature and wildlife. The scheme was set up in July by the NPA and parish councils after local people said they wanted … Continued

New planning guidance and regulations for temporary campsites in the National Park are to be introduced to help protect the New Forest’s wildlife and habitats. In recent years the New Forest has seen an increase in the number of temporary or ‘pop-up’ campsites. These have benefitted from permitted development rights whereby they can operate without … Continued

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (GENERAL PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT) (ENGLAND) ORDER 2015 (as amended) NOTICE OF CONFIRMATION OF A DIRECTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 4(1) IN RESPECT OF LAND AT LOT 2, PETLAKE FARM, RINGWOOD ROAD, BARTLEY, SOUTHAMPTON (SO40 7LA) TAKE NOTICE that the above mentioned Direction, made on 3 November 2020 pursuant to article 4(1) of the … Continued

Our 22 members meet regularly to make decisions on matters relating to what we do as a National Park Authority. These meetings take place throughout the year and are open to the public. While they usually take place at Lymington Town Hall, during the restrictions around Covid-19 we are holding virtual meetings which are streamed live. … Continued

The New Forest National Park remains one of the few places in England where the ancient tradition of commoning is still widely practised. Commoners have been grazing their animals on the open Forest since before the Norman Conquest in 1066, helping create and maintain the landscape and rare wildlife which makes the New Forest so … Continued

JOINT PRESS RELEASE from New Forest National Park Authority, Forestry England, New Forest District Council and Go New Forest New Forest organisations are calling on people to ‘care for the Forest, care for each other’ in a joint action plan to manage the increasing visitor numbers expected this year. The group aims to ensure the … Continued

England’s largest agri-environment scheme has been extended for a further year supporting vital conservation projects and commoning in the New Forest. The Verderers of the New Forest Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) scheme protects and enhances the New Forest National Park’s internationally-important wildlife and habitats. Launched in 2010 as a 10-year agreement with Natural England, it … Continued

Three Bronze Age burial mounds have been revealed at a nature reserve in the New Forest. It took a team of experts and volunteers five days to uncover the mounds, known as round barrows, which were smothered by thick vegetation and trees at Franchises lodge, an RSPB woodland near Nomansland. Round barrows were created in … Continued