The New Forest boasts an impressive array of uncommon and special butterfly species. Being...
Natural beauty
The landscape of the New Forest National Park is beautiful, rare and fragile.
Natural Beauty
Rather than just forest, as its name would suggest, the New Forest is a patchwork of ancient and ornamental woodland, open heathland, rivers and valley mires and a coastline of mudflats and saltmarshes. It contains the largest area of lowland heath in southern England, a rare habitat that once covered this part of the country. But the New Forest is not a natural landscape, it has been shaped by man, by history and by the grazing of animals for many hundreds of years.Ancient trees
Around 1,000 ancient trees have been recorded in the New Forest National...
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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...
National Park Authority welcomes tougher rules for planning enforcement
New Government planning enforcement rules came into force yesterday (25 April) which will help further protect the New Forest National...
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