Britain’s wild pony population remains small, with fewer than 3,000 estimated nationwide. With Brexit, that could be about to change.
Ken Hill Estate in Norfolk, in eastern England, is at the forefront of the rewilding movement. For 150 years the Buscall family has tended the land, growing wheat, barley and sugar beets. Conservationism has been key to their approach for decades but in 2018, the family decided that even more sweeping changes were needed.
More than 1,000 acres are being returned to nature — unproductive land that, without E.U. funding, would soon be in the red. A handful of beavers have been set free there, with plans for other “keystone species,” including wild horses, to join them next year.“[The] animals will drive habitat change with the way they behave,” Buscall said. ”They’ll do a lot of work with grazing, browsing. They carry seeds around in their fur; they root and disturb the soil, which helps improve biodiversity.
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