Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust Events led by Geri at Bellever, Postbridge

Dartmoor’s mosaic of habitats – heaths, bogs, grasslands and woods – may look wild but has been moulded by people and their livestock for millennia. Evidence abounds at Bellever of how people have lived and farmed through the ages, transforming woodland into heath and heath into grassland. Today, conservation grazing by Dartmoor ponies is recreating heath at Bellever and bog-building mosses are returning. We explore these habitats, viewing Dartmoor from an ecological perspective, and climb Bellever Tor from where we’ll have the best chance of sighting the ponies hard at work grazing.

Suitable for ages 12 years and above.