Our Animal Fact Files focus on one animal that you can find in the New Forest and each blog will share lots of interesting facts about our animals, so everyone can learn and understand more about the wonderful wildlife in our beautiful National Park… Top facts about Donkeys in the New Forest: -…
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1. Our Ancient Woodlands. The New Forest has the highest concentration of ancient trees than anywhere else in Western Europe. Our living St Paul’s Cathedral, you can see some of the best beeches at Brackley Inclosure, near Bolderwood. 2. The ponies. Native to the New Forest, these roaming ponies…
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Our Animal Fact Files focus on one animal that you can find in the New Forest and each blog will share lots of interesting facts about our animals, so everyone can learn and understand more about the wonderful wildlife in our beautiful National Park… Top facts about Deer in the New Forest: - There…
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From the mightiest oaks to the most delicate of birches; from scarlet fungi to yellow-specked bracken, the magical New Forest, Europe’s best National Park, is the place to enjoy some spectacular autumn colour. Check out our favourite spots to see the stunning autumn colours… Denny Wood One of the…
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Our Animal Fact Files focus on one animal that you can find in the New Forest and each blog will share lots of interesting facts about our animals, so everyone can learn and understand more about the wonderful wildlife in our beautiful National Park… Top facts about Pigs in the New Forest: - Pigs…
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Everyone knows about the New Forest’s world-famous free-roaming ponies. But did you know we also have free-roaming pigs? For around two months from Monday 19 September, these adorable creatures snuffle and grunt their way through the woodland, feasting on all the fallen acorns, beech mast and…
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Our Animal Fact Files focus on one animal that you can find in the New Forest and each blog will share lots of interesting facts about our animals, so everyone can learn and understand more about the wonderful wildlife in our beautiful National Park… Top facts about Ponies in the New Forest: -…
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Whether you are a new visitor to the New Forest or know it well, a guided walk can show you parts of our National Park that you may not know about and help you uncover some of our hidden gems. In this blog, we take a look at some of the top reasons why you should book a guided walk… 1. Discover our…
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One thing that you may not know about the New Forest is that all of the free-roaming ponies, cattle, donkeys, sheep and pigs in the forest are not as wild as you think they are, they all have owners! But who owns them?! That would be Commoners in the New Forest! What is commoning? Commoning is a…
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Did you know that spending just two hours a week in the green or blue outdoors – or nature, as most of us call it – gives you a noticeable health and wellbeing boost? A 2019 study of 20,000 people by Exeter University concluded that people who spent just 120 minutes a week – either in one block or…
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