A Year of Achievement in the South Downs National Park

A Year of Achievement in the South Downs National Park

June 30, 2017

In the spring of 2016 the National Park marked is sixth birthday and the successes of the following year have provided the best possible celebration.

The award of International Dark Skies Reserve status was followed by our first Dark Skies Festival which saw 18 partners run events right across the National Park. Our £2.37m Heathlands Reunited project has made a strong start to its five-year programme and the farm clusters, which now cover 60 per cent of the National Park, will be used to pilot new approaches to the future of farming.

You can read all about these projects and lots more including plans for the new South Downs National Park Trust, successful habitat work with our volunteers and the exciting outcomes from our Secrets of the High Woods project, in our new Annual Review 2016/17.

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