Commoning

THE dates of this year’s pannage season have been announced during the first public Verderers Court for 16 months.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A picture of a New Forest Pony standing over its dead foal has been released in a bid to track down the driver responsible.

NEW signage warning visitors against feeding New Forest animals has been installed at tourist hotspots ahead of the summer season.

TWO members of the House of Lords have claimed overgrazing remains a "major" problem in the New Forest during a debate.

"WE ARE a commoning family. I am not going to sugar-coat something like this for my sons."

FOREST campsites are 'incompatible' with commoning, verderers warn.

THE quality and versatility of New Forest ponies led to a record breaking sale during an online Beaulieu Road auction.

A DONKEY foal has been taken off the Forest to be bottle-fed after its mother was killed in a road accident.

COMMONING farmers in Cadnam are opening their doors in an effort to bridge the gap between the food-producing community and general public.

CAMPSITES within the national park should be shut down and relocated if commoning is to survive, a leading New Forest organisation has warned.

A COW has died after it collided with an New Forest District Council truck, sparking an investigation.

MEMBERS of the public are being warned to keep their distance from pony herds as 20 stallions are released on to the Forest.

A DRIVER who hit a New Forest pony and left it to die in the road without reporting the incident has been sentenced.

SIGNS warning about the dangers of feeding ponies are set to be installed at strategic locations across the New Forest.

CHANGES will be made to the way government money is given to commoners who turn out their animals on the New Forest.

ALL cattle turned out onto the New Forest should be dehorned to protect the public, a commoner has told the Verderers Court.

Well meaning members of the public are putting New Forest livestock at risk, the Official Verderer has warned.

YOUNG people are being helped to continue the ancient practice of commoning through subsidised grazing land in a partnership between Forest organisations and Fawley oil refinery...

AN award worth £2m has been given to the New Forest in a one-year extension to a formerly EU-funded environmental subsidy scheme which has spent £22m on landscapes and commoning...

FOOD left out for New Forest animals led to a pony dying from choking on a carrot and a second requiring emergency veterinary treatment after eating a pie...