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Photo: Birdwatching at Home Farm Marsh - Matt Edworthy

Ponies come to chark moor

16/5/2018

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The Gaia Trust and Shire’s Holt horse and pony sanctuary  have come together to get ponies grazing at our Chark Moor reserve near Bodmin.

​The ponies will graze not just grass, but the also any scrub re-growth. This is important as this winter we cleared a large amount of scrub to enlarge the open wet heath and grassland that is the favoured habitat for the rare marsh fritillary butterfly. Scrub will return if it is left un-grazed.

The ponies will stay on site for some months and the Gaia Trust and Shires Holt will be monitoring them so that any issues with under or over grazing are addressed and that their welfare is assured. Summer and Autumn grazing by cattle will follow on later in the year.

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      • Memorial Trees
      • The Future at Treraven
      • Treraven Farm Difference
      • Treraven wildlife
    • Bodwannick Manor Farm
      • The Farm
      • Wellbeing hub
    • Chark Moor
      • Marsh Fritillary
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