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Culling wild ponies on Dartmoor

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baerben · 22/06/2026 08:14

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15918295/The-woke-quango-wants-cull-wild-pony-Dartmoor-wont-speak-people-fighting-save-lives.html

AIBU to think this is horrendous? I have no agricultural background but as I understand it Natural England wants to protect bio diversity in the area and avoid overgrazing. Surely there must be a different way?

Revealed: The quango that wants to cull EVERY wild pony on Dartmoor

A dozen or so Dartmoor Hill Ponies are huddled in small groups on the misty moor before us, with tails swishing, nostrils flaring gently and tangled manes blowing in the breeze.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15918295/The-woke-quango-wants-cull-wild-pony-Dartmoor-wont-speak-people-fighting-save-lives.html

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Jc2001 · 22/06/2026 08:25

People need to question/ fact check what they read in the daily mail.

https://share.google/7GDb01W2hhSSoREWh

Contrarymary30 · 22/06/2026 08:20

I despise the human race when I hear things like this .

MandingoAteMyBaby · 22/06/2026 08:17

Bit weird how they’re labelled “wild ponies” yet they are branded, managed and sold by farmers.

Sounds more like livestock than actually wild animals.