First foal of the season born at nature reserve
The first foal of the season has been born at the Wicken Fen reserve in CambridgeshireThe ponies have been at the site for about 30 years1 hour agoThe konik foal arrived on Friday at the National Trust's Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire.The ponies, leave water-filled hoofprints and piles of dung, that help attract new species of flora and fauna to the lowland landscape.
They clear "persistent shrubbery" and their arrival marked the charity's move from a combination of intensive mowing, cutting and scrub-bashing to more sustainable and climate-friendly conservation grazing, the National Trust said. "This allows different types of vegetation to thrive and increases the diversity and complexity of habitats available to a wide range of species, from tiny dung beetles to mammals and birds like badgers and bitterns.
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