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
Ancient trees
Around 1,000 ancient trees have been recorded in the New Forest National...
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Dan Snow on a Forest at warView Blog
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...
UK National Parks become first in world to join Race to ZeroView News
UK National Parks become first in world to join Race to Zero
Joint press release with UK National Parks The UK’s National Parks have become the first in the world to join...
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