Green Halo

About us

Where nature, people and business flourish

The New Forest is one of Europe’s best sanctuaries for nature, situated in the busy south of England.

We bring together businesses, communities, charities and universities to ensure our world class environment in and around the New Forest National Park flourishes as an integral part of how we work and live.

Our vision

To be a global exemplar of how our most precious landscapes can work in harmony with a thriving, economically successful community.

Our mission

The Green Halo brings together organisations from across the public, private and third sectors to:

Inspire by promoting best practice in protecting and enhancing natural capital and ecosystem services
Encourage by developing and delivering new projects
Support by identifying resources for projects and offering expert advice to help deliver them
Inform by continuing to promote and publish research on ‘natural capital’, and by communicating its activities to local communities.

Why a ‘halo’?

The benefits we get from nature are not constrained by boundaries, and neither should our ambition.

The idea was born in the New Forest National Park but the partnership wants to identify, value, protect and improve our natural world across a much wider area.

This is why it includes organisations from Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Wiltshire. But the ‘halo’ can stretch as far as we want it to.

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Review of 2019

"The Green Halo Partnership is an opportunity to lead the country in turning policy into practice."
Guy Thompson
Former Chief Operating Officer, Natural England