Konik ponies on Booton Common

By Victoria Plum

Further to my recent post about Booton Common and its maintenance as a wildlife habitat, you might like to go down and see the newest residents: four Konik ponies, which are rare and come from Poland.

A herd are “working” at Norfolk Wildlife Trust Hickling Broad, and I think the new residents at Booton might be from the same herd.

They can tolerate wet ground, which is crucial at Booton as this is low-lying and always wet, and they do an excellent job of keeping rank vegetation down by nibbling and trampling.

We have the Heritage Lottery Fund to thank for helping with this work.

Above: Konik ponies at Hickling Broad in the spring. Photo: Tina Sutton