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Tag Archives: New forest
New Forest: the sad story of the strange fish
While the New Forest is renown for its exquisite landscape of heathland, valley mires and Ancient and Ornamental woodlands, its 42km (26 miles) of coastal habitats are often overlooked. The New Forest coastline is a mixture of wildlife-rich shingle, saltmarsh, lagoons … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest flora & fauna
Tagged beaked, bottle, carbine, cetacean, coast, continental, dolphin, Dragoon, English Channel, fish, fishermen, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Itchen, Marchwood, New forest, porpoise, Sea, Solent, strange, Tursiops truncatus, water, whale
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New Forest: natural connections
In the last few weeks it has been my absolute pleasure and privilege to be invited into the homes of several long-established commoning families and spend time in their company. Congregating in the kitchen seems to be the standard practice, … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest Commoner
Tagged adults, ancient, animals, children, close-knit, common, Commoner, community, conserve, education, generation, information, insects, inter-generational, landscape, livestock, neighbourhood, neighbourhoods, New forest, non-human, pastoral, plants, pony, preserve, resident, residents, traditional, trees
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New Forest: £5000 reward for finding ‘Hit & Run’ drivers
The Open Court sessions at the Verderers’ Court are a great way to learn about the Forest’s management and see one of its ancient institutions in action. Each month (except August and December) the public are welcome to attend and … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest Animal Road Traffic Accidents
Tagged £1000, £5000, accident, Agister, animal, cattle, collision, commonable, Commoner, Commoners Defence Association, court, Cow, death, driver, fatal, free, Hampshire, hit, hit & run, horse, Horse Welfare Trust, incident, injury, New forest, New Forest Pony Breeding & Cattle Society, NFPB&CS, pig, police, pony, reward, roaming, RTA, run, speed, steer, suffer, traffic, vehicle, Verderer, wild, witness
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New Forest: medieval dog maiming
I was interested to learn recently that the New Forest has more visitors per square kilometre than any other national park (7.5 visits/km2), and that dog walking was the most common reason for visiting the New Forest throughout the year.[1] … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged canine, Charta de Foresta, claws, Commoners Charter, dogs, expedited, Forest, hunting, lamed, law, lawed, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Magna Carta, maimed, mastiff, Museum, New forest, paws, poaching, terrier, toes, Verderers, walking, William Conqueror
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New Forest: C19th waste land or allotments
On this day (28th May) in 1870, it was reported in the Hampshire Advertiser that Southampton residents and those in the surrounding neighbourhood, had held a meeting in the Guildhall to discuss enclosing the New Forest for agricultural purposes. [In the … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest
Tagged Act, agriculture, commonage, Commoner, commons, cultivate, cultivation, dairy, enclose, enclosure, entail, farming, Government, Guildhall, inheritance, land owner, law, New forest, Pannage, Parliament, pasturage, pauper, poor, population, primogeniture, rich, Southampton, tourist, working man
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New Forest: the rare brown hare
On a recent journey away from the Forest, where I had the pleasure to be a passenger rather than the driver, I was able to look out of the window and admire the scenery instead of concentrating on the road … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Nature, brown hare, burrow, control, decline, dog, form, Hare Preservation Trust, hound, kit, Lepus europaeus, leveret, lifestyle, Mammal Society, New forest, predator, prey, rabbit, rare, vulnerable, warren
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New Forest: “I thought it would be bigger!”
Living in or around the New Forest is a pleasure and a privilege that many of us sometimes take for granted, as a friend of mine discovered recently. She had travelled from London to the New Forest bringing with her a … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest
Tagged B3079, boundary, Cadnam, cattle grid, common, fauna, flora, historic, law, livestock, M27, misunderstand, New forest, park, perambulation, road sign, royal, speed
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New Forest: itchy, scratchy, lousy!
I went for a walk this week, in a part of the Forest that I don’t usually visit. I wanted to see if the bluebells had bloomed, so went on a route that took in one of the Forestry Commission … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest pony
Tagged Damalinia equi, donkey, equine, filly, horse, itchy, lice, louse, lousy, mare, New forest, pony, scratchy
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New Forest: Look, but don’t touch the animals
This week I had a long Twitter conversation with someone concerned about the amount of people feeding and petting the donkeys at Hatchet Pond, near Beaulieu. In one incident a family went even further, and were trying to force a … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest Animal Road Traffic Accidents, New Forest pony
Tagged animal food, bite, cars, colic, cows, danger, don't touch, donkeys, fatal, food, hand feeding, Hatchet Pond, human food, injury, kick, look, New forest, no-no, picnic, pigs, poison, ponies, prohibited, roads, sheep, toxic, traffic, treat, Verderers, verge, waterfowl
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New Forest: animal accidents – multiple causes/multiple solutions
This week (April, 2017) the subject of animal accidents on the Forest roads has been very much at the forefront of my mind. I’ve been watching with interest the comments on various social media forums, reading newspaper reports, listening to … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest Animal Road Traffic Accidents
Tagged accidents, animal, car parks, catchment, cattle, donkeys, drainage, drivers, environment, feeding, flood, grazing, landscape, New forest, nutrient, Open Forest, pigs, restoration, river, roads. ponies, sheep, speed limit, speeding, stream, timber, traffic, water, wetland
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