Our Themes

Enhancing the natural environment

The Green Halo can help protect and improve our natural environment by:

Articulating a shared vision for how we manage our natural assets
Bringing together partners to work across organisational and administrative boundaries
Encouraging the sharing of ideas and best practice
Helping partners make a clear and coherent business cases for investing in our natural assets
Engaging the business community in protecting and improving the natural environment.

Our aim is to ensure that by recognising the value of our natural assets – from woodland, rivers and open spaces to our diverse wildlife – we can strengthen the arguments for protecting and improving our natural environment.

Those arguments will be guided by the business case for protecting those assets to secure the benefits they offer society.

Solent Seagrass Restoration Project

Identifying the best methodology for restoring this hugely important marine species within the Solent, whilst also monitoring the habitat as a provider of carbon sequestration.

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Green infrastructure development in Romsey

This long-standing ambition for the former aquatic retail centre next to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Fishlake Meadows will improve the area for wildlife, and offers opportunities for those living, working or visiting Romsey and the Test Valley to enjoy and connect with nature.

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Future Forest

Thanks to high quality habitats free from pollution from intensive land use, the New Forest boasts incredible freshwater habitats with exceptional wetland plant and insect communities.

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New Forest Catchment Partnership

Thanks to high quality habitats free from pollution from intensive land use, the New Forest boasts incredible freshwater habitats

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Barton Meadows Nature Reserve

Barton Meadows Nature Reserve was created during the planning process for a housing development on Barton Farm, Winchester. Over 30 hectares of wildlife-poor agricultural land has become a buzzing, flourishing wildflower haven thanks to the Trust’s work with Winchester City Council planners dealing with Barton Farm development next door.

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"The New Forest is home to astonishingly lovely ponds, and is a special place where people live and work alongside some of the most important freshwater habitats in Europe. I work all over the country, but nowhere else comes close."
Dr Naomi Ewald
New Forest pond expert from Freshwater Habitats Trust

"The Green Halo is about growing a joint vision for natural capital and a platform for partnership to realise our vision. It’s exciting to see such a wide range of partners coming together."
Alison Barnes
Convener of the Green Halo Partnership