Wild Carneddau mountain ponies succumb to cold
Brutal wintertime conditions accept claimed an estimated forty wild Carneddau mount ponies living inwards Snowdonia National Park inwards Wales.
The ponies accept been grazing the slopes of Aber as well as Llanfairfechan Mountain for at to the lowest degree 500 years as well as are listed every bit 1 of the Wonders of Snowdonia.
An estimated 220 wild ponies inhabit close 27,000 acres.
Park wardens as well as estate workers volition assist members of the Carneddau Mountain Pony Society bury the animals.
The resilient breed is commonly able to withstand the harsh wintertime weather, only an Arctic smash inwards recent weeks proved every bit good much for unopen to of the animals.
The final meaning casualties due to bitter wintertime conditions was inwards 1947, when an estimated one-half of the ponies died.
The ponies play an of import business office inwards the area’s biodiversity, helping to hold constitute as well as insect life on the mount slope.
Although they are to a greater extent than resilient than other breeds of ponies as well as usually tin last harsh weather, the recent mutual frigidity snap that delivered snowfall proved fatal to unopen to of the ponies.
It has been the coldest March inwards Wales since 1962.
Wales’ Natural Resources as well as Food Minister, Alun Davies, has relaxed regulations to permit disposal of the bodies, given the hard wintertime conditions.
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