Travel Photography Scholarship 2013

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [559] | View Larger Image

David Wallace and his son search through the fog for their herd. They comb the 10 square mile stretch on horseback, quadbike and on foot until they find and can push the wild ponies towards their farm.

The herds on Exmoor roam over the 300 square mile National Park conservation grazing. The importance of what the people in the local communities are trying to preserve is rarely herd of outside of the area. This particular herd has been overseen by the Wallace family, for a Century. Many breed experts believe these animals bare the closest possible resemblance to the primitive wild horse, first recorded in the UK in 70,000 BC. Soldiers poached them during the 1st and 2nd World Wars for their meet.

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Once trapped on the farm, the mothers and foals are corralled into pens and sorted. The foals are separated from their mothers to be checked, counted, branded, micro chipped and mostly sold. This event holds no financial reward for the farmers who practice it, what is maintained by these enthusiasts, is a small slice of prehistoric Britain.

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