Appeal to get volunteers back into the New Forest and to raise funds
Not only is it hoped to raise much needed funds to preserve the New Forest, but more volunteers are needed to sign up.
Not only is it hoped to raise much needed funds to preserve the New Forest, but more volunteers are needed to sign up.
A plea for a new law to protect horses against well meaning passers by who feed other people’s horses has been called for after the owner of a mini Shetland pony is convinced he ate a roast dinner.
Following the introduction of a male and female beaver onto a site in Dorset in February 2021, exciting new footage of the animals has been released.
Following the discovery of a dead red kite, the police, together with other agencies carried out a warrant at a property in East Dorset.
According to the RSPB, last year saw a huge number of threatened seabirds successfully breed along England’s south coast.
With lockdown being eased the New Forest National Park Authority is keen to recruit additional ambassadors to help care for the forest.
A pair of barn owls is nesting and raising their chicks on a nature reserve near Weymouth, and you can watch.
With the New Forest expecting an increase in visitors this year, a number of organisations have joined together to call on people to ‘care for the Forest, care for each other’.
Naturalist and television presenter, Chris Packham CBE, has voiced his support for a short film from animal welfare charity, Naturewatch Foundation.
The lockdown fundraiser topped ten times its target prompting the head of Lower Prep to fulfil his promise.