what efforts have been made to protect it?
Forest laws were enacted to preserve the New Forest as a location for royal deer hunting.
New Forest
Forest laws were enacted to preserve the New Forest as a location for royal deer hunting,
who owns the horses in the new forest Commoners what is this about? The New Forest pony. where are they found? New Forest in Hampshire in southern England. what are they used for? Riding what is this forest famous for? It is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. what other animals are found here? Fallow deer ("Dama dama"), roe deer ("Capreolus capreolus"),  red deer ("Cervus elephas"), sika deer ("Cervus nippon"), muntjac ("Muntiacus reevesii").
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New Forest [SEP] Common rights
Forest laws were enacted to preserve the New Forest as a location for royal deer hunting, and interference with the king's deer and its forage was punished. But the inhabitants of the area ("Commoners") had pre-existing "rights of common": to turn horses and cattle (but only rarely sheep) out into the Forest to graze ("common pasture"), to gather fuel wood ("estovers"), to cut peat for fuel ("turbary"), to dig clay ("marl"), and to turn out pigs between September and November to eat fallen acorns and beechnuts ("pannage" or "mast"). There were also licences granted to gather bracken after Michaelmas Day (29 September) as litter for animals ("fern").