Wild Peak landowners get new ‘neigh-bours’ to help restore nature - Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has launched a new Wild Peak Grazing Network to support smaller landowners in delivering natural patterns of grazing and regeneration of habitats across the Peak District.
Grazing by large herbivores remains the most natural and effective way of managing vegetation, shaping the landscape in ways that human interventions and machinery simply cannot replicate.
Through feedback from its Wild Peak Network of landowners, local communities and project leaders, the Trust identified that many landowners with smaller sites didn’t have access to livestock to manage the land in this way. So, to support them and facilitate grazing in the Peak District, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has created the Wild Peak Grazing Network.
Inspired by the Trust’s Call of the Wild project in the Trent Valley, the Network will support 11 landowners with grazing through a shared group of native Exmoor ponies moved between the sites covering 45.47Ha in the Peak District National Park.
On site, the animals will browse brambles and trees to create a mosaic of habitats; graze grass and vegetation to different heights which creates habitats for invertebrates; encourage wildflowers to grow providing pollen and nectar for invertebrates; increase food availability for birds and ultimately create more diversity in the nature.
Posted On: 20/11/2024
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