Five Exmoor ponies will be spending their summer at the RSPB’s Broadwater Warren nature reserve helping to restore heathland. Over the next 6 months, the hairy visitors will graze their way through grasses, birch, bramble and gorse across the nature reserve to recover habitat lost over the last 60 years. The ponies belong to The Sussex Pony Grazing and Conservation … [Read more...] about Exmoor ponies travel to South Downs reserve
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Arctic Charr numbers increase in Ennerdale
Arctic Charr numbers have increased in Ennerdale Water thanks to a conservation project. Numbers of charr had dwindled to just a few hundred during the last couple of decades, from a population estimated around 11,000. The Wild Ennerdale Partnership, which is returning the valley to a more natural ecosystem, has worked on a number of measures to help improve conditions … [Read more...] about Arctic Charr numbers increase in Ennerdale