Swap your African safari ‘Big Five’ for The New Forest National Park’s ‘Top Five’ for this year’s staycation With Coronavirus smashing many of our holiday dreams this year, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a fantastic wildlife holiday closer to home. Safaris all over the world shout about seeing and photographing their favourite ‘Big Five’ […]
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And this Little Piggy ate Acorns!!
What is Pannage? Every year at the start of autumn the ‘Pannage’ season begins in The New Forest. Pannage is the practice of releasing domestic pigs into the forest to rummage, eat and scoff their way through the thousands of acorns and other nuts that have fallen. Releasing the pigs is vital to the forests […]
Discover more about Nature at the New Forest Reptile Centre
We are very fortunate to have such a variety of wildlife here in the New Forest National Park and what better way to view some of our rarer species than at the New Forest Reptile Centre. The New Forest Reptile Centre, situated 2 miles outside of Lyndhurst, is open daily 10am – 4.30pm from April […]