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FIRE AT BRATLEY/BACKLEY/A31 AUGUST 2026
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August 17th, 2026

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Visit to Needs Ore Nature Reserve on 20th August 2026
Given the popularity of our Needs Ore visit last year we are grateful to the Beaulieu estate for giving us permission to visit Needs Ore again. Needs Ore is a nature reserve at the...

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Wilding Film Event — Announcing Our Panel

Habitat & Landscape Committee
October 11th, 2024

Clive Chatters, Lyndsey Stride, Nick Tomalin (RSPB), and Sam Haynes will discuss rewilding and its implications for the Forest for our Wilding Film event. Discussion will be modera...

Verderers response to BBC Inside Out South

Commoning
January 30th, 2019

This is the Verderers of the New Forest Press Release in response to claims made on a segment of BBC’s Inside Out South aired on Monday, 28th January, 2019. It is a great sha...

NFA Habitat and Landscape 2017-18

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 15th, 2018

Habitat and Landscape Chair, Brian Tarnoff reviews with uncharacteristic brevity the past year on the Forest Design Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and the England Coast Path....

Friends of the New Forest help to purchase ‘a secret forest’ in the north of the New Forest National Park.

Habitat & Landscape Committee
March 23rd, 2018

The trustees, members and supporters of the Friends of the New Forest (New Forest Association) are celebrating the purchase of a nature reserve, near Nomansland in Wiltshire, which...

“Look, Don’t Pick” – The Arguments

Habitat & Landscape Committee
December 4th, 2016

Over the months since the Forestry Commission announced their “Look, Don’t Pick” Policy for Fungi on The New Forest SSSI on the Crown Lands under their stewardshi...

Chalara Ash Dieback Reaches The New Forest

Habitat & Landscape Committee
December 1st, 2016

At tonight’s Consultative Panel, the Deputy Surveyor announced the first laboratory confirmed case of ash dieback within the New Forest National Park. This was discovered in...

NFA Comment on Dibden Bay

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
October 28th, 2016

The perennial threat of development of Dibden Bay by Associated British Ports (ABP) for a container port appears to be back on the table according to stories yesterday from both th...

Fracking the Forest?

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
October 10th, 2016

With the Government taking the decision on fracking away from Lancashire County Council on 6th October 2016, this brief review of our position and the possibility of hydraul...

The Forestry Commission’s New Forest Fungi Policy

Habitat & Landscape Committee
September 29th, 2016

The New Forest Association are pleased that the Forestry Commission are implementing a “Look, Don’t Pick” rule regarding fungi foraging on the New Forest Site of ...

Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 2: Wildlife, Materials and Beauty

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

In a feat of both irony, and good timing thematically, the presenter met the five minute limit for Presentments, and was cut short. The first part was an apology from the New Fores...

Presentment: Latchmore Brook: Part 1: An Apology

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 21st, 2016

As the Latchmore Brook planning application may be decided before the next month’s Verderers Court. The NFA find that we owe everyone an apology. We’ve never made...

Fact Checking Our Friends

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport Committee
September 19th, 2016

The Friends of Latchmore have created a Crowdjustice crowd funding page to fund future legal challenges to the restoration project at Latchmore Brook. It contains some of the...

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