Our vision of the New Forest is of a unique, naturally beautiful, living and changing place, where strong elements of tranquillity and wilderness are protected.
That vision recognises the pressures now facing the Forest: local population growth, recreation, infrastructure, traffic, development and climate change. It is a vision of countryside and coast free from pollution, with a minimum of intrusion; an ancient unenclosed landscape set in a wider matrix of diverse, unspoiled countryside including historic settlements and character villages, with long-term ecological and cultural ties to the Forest.
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Photographs courtesy: Clive Chatters, Gale Pettifer, Steve Laycock, Mike Read, Brian Tarnoff, Peter Roberts, John Ward.