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Discover your National Park at free family events over Easter

March 22nd, 2019

A fun roadshow will be touring towns and cities across the south east over the Easter holidays to showcase the amazing South Downs National Park. Coinciding with the UK-wide Discover National Parks fortnight from April 6 to 21, the roadshow will be bringing the National Park to towns and cities around the South Downs. It […]

National Park apprentices – the inside story

March 8th, 2019

March sees National Apprenticeship Week to celebrate the contribution apprentices make to organisations. The South Downs National Park Authority currently has seven apprentices, with plans to recruit at least four more this year. We caught up with Frances Osborne, a Business Administration Apprentice for the lottery-funded Heathlands Reunited Team, which is working to protect and […]

Project to shed light on river’s health

March 8th, 2019

A community group working to protect and enhance wildlife in West Sussex will benefit from a £1,500 grant from the Authority’s Sustainable Communities Fund. The Parishes Wildlife Group plan to use the grant to commission a survey of dragonflies on the River Kird, as well as hold a series of talks and guided walks to […]

Butterflies, bees and beetles…protecting a vital link in ecosystem

March 8th, 2019

With a major global scientific review reporting alarming loss of insect biodiversity, Lead Ranger Tom Parry explains that the South Downs National Park Authority is playing its part to protect populations in the South East of England. The review, Worldwide Decline of the Entomofauna: A review of its drivers, found that more than 40 per […]