The New Forest

17/10/2024

An early morning walk in the Forest this morning. Fallow deer just starting their annual rut

09/04/2023

Happy Easter 🐣

If you are walking in the New Forest please remember to stay on the tracks and keep dogs under close control.

🐦 Doing so helps protect our rare ground nesting birds and their young, like this curlew chick.



📷 Elli Rivers
Forestry England

10/12/2022

A Letter to The Times newspaper about cuts in funding to national parks in England

06/12/2022

Proposed Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) for the New Forest.

From today (Monday 5 December) until Friday 27 January at 5pm, you can comment on two proposed PSPOs, which look to ban the lighting of fires and use of BBQs principally on the Crown Lands managed by Forestry England, and the feeding and petting of ponies, horses, mules, and donkeys in the New Forest.

Read more: https://newforest.gov.uk/article/3212/Consultation-on-proposed-Public-Space-Protection-Orders-starts

01/11/2022

Trick or tree! 👻🌲

The week after Halloween can be a scary time for wildlife, as pumpkins get dumped in the nation's forest!

Not only can they spread disease and make some species ill, but our team often find tealights left inside the flesh which could be ingested by animals! 🎃

Make sure you stay green this Halloween by reusing your pumpkin and opting for one of these sustainable suggestions 👉 forestryeng.land/reuse-your-pumpkin

08/10/2022

04/10/2022

Fallow and Red deer. As they enter their annual rut give them space and don't disturb them as it stresses them.

12/08/2022

Play your part in helping us to prevent devastating wildfires across Hampshire and Isle of Wight this summer with these top tips.

Find more - https://www.hantsfire.gov.uk/safety/leisure-and-lifestyle/in-the-countryside/

04/08/2022

We're relieved that Marks and Spencer is now supporting our disposable BBQ campaign to help reduce & cut .

M&S said it is stopping selling disposable barbecues across the whole of the UK to protect open spaces and reduce the risks of wildfires during the heatwave.

M&S had already stopped selling disposable barbecues near national parks and in London but given the unusually hot and dry conditions, they said they were 'taking the precautionary step of removing them from sale across the UK.'

Co-op took the lead in 2021 when they stopped selling them in and around National Parks UK. In spring this year Aldi and Waitrose took them off sale nationwide to reduce wildfires and waste from the single use products.

Over 50 retailers in and around the are already supporting our campaign. Find out more and please demand that the few remaining retailers help protect the countryside and take them off the shelves.

This photo by Mac Hall shows a fire at Sway in the in 2020. Mac took the photo from his house but fortunately was unharmed.

https://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/communities/get-involved/ban-on-bbqs/

11/07/2022

Locally made BBQ charcoal, now delivered to your door (as long as you live in the New Forest!)
https://www.newforestcharcoal.uk/
With fully integrated network hubs* they deliver faster than Amazon👍
https://pondheadconservation.org/
Pondhead charcoal, it does what it says on the bag!

*volunteers in each village with charcoal in their sheds 😂

02/07/2022

19/06/2022

As the temperature increases, so does the risk of wildfire. It can only take one spark to start a potentially devastating wildfire.

If you are planning to head into the Forest over the warmer days, please remember that and are banned all year.
Discarded ci******es can also cause .

⚠️ If you discover a forest fire call 999 and if you can, use What3Words to give an exact location.

Please help us reduce the risk of fire and