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Find out about Exmoor ponies and why we use them in conservation.

Konik ponies are one of the largest of the ‘pony’ breeds, often the size of a horse. 'Konik' literally means small horse. They are domestic ponies, bred over 100 years to live in the wild for conservation purposes.

This pig breed is becoming popular with smallholders and free range farmers. Despite their large size, large black pigs are often friendly and placid.

These pigs are as close as you can get to the wild boar and also, despite being a domesticated version of this wild species, share many of its traits.

Resident of the Cumbrian fells for hundreds of years, this hill breed is the backbone of our sheep flocks.

An all-black compact mountain sheep with a taste for bramble and young scrub.

A striking unusual milky coffee coloured-sheep, often with four horns and sometimes as many as six. This primitive breed is originally from the Isle of Man. Their fleece self-sheds but they can also be shorn.

The story goes... they were bred by the Romans to take with them on their marches across the countryside so had to be strong, long-legged and happy to browse on whatever was available as they covered the length and breadth of the countryside.

Similar to both the Hebridean sheep and the Manx, this is a compact, fine boned mountain sheep that can have two or four horns. Unlike our other two breeds of mountain sheep, Shetland sheep come in a wide variety of colours, so you will see cream and fawn as well as coffee, chocolate and black.

Our ground-breaking Wilder Grazing Strategy supports the nature-positive management of our estates, encouraging wildlife recovery and adaptation to the changing climate.

Coming in a wide range of sizes, colours and patterns, with an array of horn sizes and shapes, these goats are perhaps the ideal conservation animal.

Head of the herd is Voldemort, a dark lord of horses...