All posts by jefftravis

Introducing Green South Downs – a new sustainability awards programme for businesses

May 4th, 2023

An exciting new initiative launches today to recognise the business community’s efforts to go green and be more sustainable. Businesses of all sizes across the region are being invited to apply for Green South Downs – a new programme that awards enterprises for taking steps towards helping the environment and local community. It comes after […]

Connecting with South Downs nature to manage anxiety

May 4th, 2023

Anxiety is something most people will experience in their lives and is in fact a very normal human emotion. Yet sometimes those feelings of intense worry can get out of control and escalate into something bigger. Anxiety is the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (15 May to 21 May) and the National […]

Huge hedgerow to link South Downs and New Forest National Parks

May 4th, 2023

An ambitious project has been launched to connect Hampshire’s two National Parks, the South Downs and New Forest, with a ‘nature corridor’ of hedgerow. Hedgerows play an enormously important role in boosting biodiversity, capturing carbon, improving food production and enhancing the rural community. The countryside has lost over half of all hedgerows since 1945 and […]

South Downs history knowledge nuggets: Monarch’s Way

May 4th, 2023

Cultural heritage lead Anooshka Rawden takes a look at the history of this remarkable route. If you’re a regular walker across the South Downs you might occasionally see signage for the Monarch’s Way that cuts through places like Hambledon, Kingley Vale, Arundel and ends at Shoreham. This is the fourth longest waymarked route in England, […]

National Park to donate two disease-resistant elms to Brighton green space

May 4th, 2023

A beautifully-gilded tree sculpture has been unveiled in a local park to symbolise the importance of our treescape. The English Elm, one of the oldest in the world, was destined for the incinerator after succumbing to Elm Disease. However, a huge community effort led by artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has seen the tree preserved and turned […]