Litter
The aim in England’s newest National Park is to conserve and enhance the New Forest’s natural beauty by cutting out litter. It costs time and public money for organisations to clean up litter, but the real answer if for people not to leave litter at all.
The New Forest National Park Authority works with partners such as the Forestry Commission and New Forest District Council to raise awareness of the problems caused by litter in the National Park and to tackle them.
Litter is unsightly and unhealthy; it mars the natural beauty of the National Park and poses a risk in the New Forest to animal as well as human health.
With partners, the National Park Authority runs regular campaigns to highlight the litter problem. In 2006 people were encouraged to send in digital photographs of litter in the New Forest to help identify blackspots, see which types of litter are most common, gauge the scale of the problem and prompt better-targeted campaigns in the future.
A major clean-up campaign and a new 'Forest Force' was launched in 2007.
