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Open Country: Death on the Moors

Death on the Moors

19/03/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Death on the Moors

Is the iconic Dartmoor pony under threat? Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to find out.

Helen Mark is on Dartmoor finding out about the problems faced by the ponies that have roamed the moors of Dartmoor and Bodmin for years.

Ponies have roamed the moors of Dartmoor and Bodmin for years and are as much a part of the moors as the heathers that grow there. But is the very survival of the Dartmoor pony, which is the symbol of the National Park, now under threat? Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to meet some of the people whose lives revolve around the ponies and who are fighting to preserve them and ultimately the moorland on which they roam.

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