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EPIC has been initiating and supporting equine conservation grazing throughout the UK since 1994. EPIC wrote the first equine welfare code of practice for conservation grazing and obtained national support from equine welfare organisations. EPIC is the equine conservation grazing advocate on the National Equine Welfare Council. Based in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, EPIC continues to manage, for biodiversity, species rich grassland and wetland that has 'dropped out' of production agriculture. |
Click here to find out about Myers Allotment, in Silverdale, neglected for thirty years, rescued by ten years of equine conservation grazing to support populations of rare northern brown argus and high brown fritillary butterflies. |
Click here to read back copies of 'Epicentre' - an on-line magazine detailing some early initiatives in equine conservation grazing. |
Click here to see a copy of the EPIC constitution. |
Click here for information about worms and worming for native ponies working as equine conservation grazers |
Click here for help and advice about handling ponies working as equine conservation grazers |
Click here for an assortment of guidelines and recommendations for equine conservation grazing practitioners |
EPIC, working with United Utilities, Natural England, the RSPB and the farmer on site, has introduced British native ponies for the management of 3,000 hectares of Whitendale Fell in the Forest of Bowland, to improve biodiversity. The Yorkshire Exmoor Pony Trust is seeking to take the project forward.
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