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Green Halo conference explores challenges and opportunities for nature recovery in the New Forest

June 2021

The fifth anniversary of the Green Halo Partnership was marked with a virtual conference: Towards 2030, which explored how individuals and organisations working in and around the New Forest National Pak can tackle the climate and nature emergencies.  More than 130 people joined the online conference to consider how we can deliver on nature recovery and ‘net zero’ and support people’s health and prosperity at…

A nature health network

May 2021

By Jim Mitchell, Interpretation and Outreach Manager, New Forest National Park Authority How often do you think about nature in your job? Do you factor in how you can help wildlife and encourage nature, in order to help increase health and wellbeing? The benefits of nature for our mental and physical…

Green Halo virtual Conference 2021 – Towards 2030

May 2021

How we’ll deliver on nature recovery and net zero The conference took place on Wednesday 9 June 2021. Please see the recording below. Please also see links below for the speaker notes and presentations. Five years on from its inception, how is the Green Halo Partnership shaping our area and what can…

Designing places that respect nature 

August 2020

By Gary Wilburn, HPW Architecture So, how do we make sure we derive genuine, long-term learning and benefit from these challenging and unusual times? Witnessing and hopefully remembering the current and tangible improvements in air quality, bird song, clear skies and clear water in our rivers and around the coast…

A Green Recovery: The opportunities ahead

July 2020

The Green Halo Partnership, Southern Policy Centre and Future South have prepared a paper for consideration. If you wish to highlight other projects that could potentially contribute to a green recovery framework, please use this form.  …

Trauma and change: will we do things differently?

July 2020

By Simon Eden, XCX Consulting In his book “The Language of Cities” Deyan Sudjic, Journalist and Director of London’s Design Museum, suggests that: “It takes trauma to make a complacent city invest in its future”. It’s only when a major crisis – from a loss of a key part of…

COVID-19: A chance to re-evaluate our relationship with nature, adapt behaviour and reboot lifestyle choices

May 2020

By Sam Gibson, Associate Director at BECG. On Sunday 10 May, the Prime Minister announced that he was lifting the one-hour daily limit on outdoor exercising that had been imposed when the nation went into lockdown on 23 March. When other restrictions that limit mobility and socialising remain in…

Life after lockdown – locking in environmental benefits

May 2020

In the seven weeks of lockdown many people have quickly become familiar with home working, meetings via Zoom or Microsoft Teams and educating their kids at home. And amongst the many challenges there is at least one good thing to come out of our new circumstances: we’re beginning to remember…

Natural opportunities for health

November 2019

By Jim Mitchell Interpretation and Outreach Manager, New Forest National Park Authority We are lucky to be blessed with lots of nature-rich and accessible greenspace in the Green Halo area, including the open space of the New Forest and an extensive network of footpaths, bridleways, country parks, urban parks, coastline…

Natural environment at centre of discussion about the south’s future

September 2019

Green Halo steering group members Alison Barnes and Simon Eden spoke about the need to put the environment at the heart of a combined identity for the Central South at a conference on Friday (20 September). Leading figures from Southampton, Portsmouth, the M3 corridor and the south east of Dorset…