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• Dan Snow on a Forest at war

  4 JUNE 2024 Dan Snow on a Forest at war

  Dan Snow is a much-loved historian and television presenter and has lived with his family in the New Forest since 2009. Read below an interview with him by Jacqui Ibbotson...

• NPA Chair shares family connection to D-Day

  30 MAY 2024 NPA Chair shares family connection to D-Day

    Ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, New Forest National Park Authority Chair David Bence shares the story of his uncle John's part in that historic day. You can...

• Celebrating 20 years of the New Forest Marque

  30 APRIL 2024 Celebrating 20 years of the New Forest Marque

  This year marks 20 years since the New Forest Marque was first launched. Over the last two decades, the scheme, which started out as Forest Friendly Farming, has supported hundreds...

• Swifts – spectacular birds which need our help

  31 MARCH 2024 Swifts – spectacular birds which need our help

  By Catharine Gale, Trustee of Hampshire Swifts  Swifts are supreme flyers, perfectly adapted to a life in the air. They sleep, feed and mate on the wing and only land...

• Meet the National Park’s Net Zero with Nature Programme Manager 

  25 MARCH 2024 Meet the National Park’s Net Zero with Nature Programme Manager 

  John Stride is the New Forest National Park Authority’s new Net Zero with Nature Programme Manager. With transformational change needed to address our climate and nature emergencies, John will develop...

• Artist Alex Julyan reflects on her residency in the New Forest

  19 JANUARY 2024 Artist Alex Julyan reflects on her residency in the New Forest

  My work isn’t made with signature materials, or by a particular method. Instead, each project is directed by an intention to draw on diverse ideas, histories and experiences, and to...

• Work experience in the New Forest

  10 JANUARY 2024 Work experience in the New Forest

  Introduction Hi, my name is Bryn Mitchell. I have spent the last three days fulfilling my work experience with the New Forest National Park Authority (NPA) communications team, I have...

• Photography work experience with the NPA

  14 DECEMBER 2023 Photography work experience with the NPA

  Marcus Langelier My name is Marcus, and I have had three days of work experience at the NPA. During my placement here I have really enjoyed my time. I got...

• Artist in residence: Alex Julyan

  22 NOVEMBER 2023 Artist in residence: Alex Julyan

  An update from the current New Forest National Park Artist in Residence, Alex Julyan.  Alex stayed in the Forest throughout October and will exhibit at SpudWORKS in May 2024. She...

• Welcoming winter birdlife

  11 OCTOBER 2023 Welcoming winter birdlife

    By Bird Aware Solent Throughout the autumn and winter, the New Forest coastline hosts an extraordinary array of migratory wading birds, ducks and geese. Some will have travelled all...

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