19/10/2011
With Anna Hill. Dartmoor Hill Ponies will be given a contraceptive to try to cut the number of foals. In the last two years around a thousand unsold ponies have been shot.
Dartmoor Hill Ponies will be injected with a contraceptive in a pilot project to try to cut the number of foals. The market for the ponies has shrunk and in the last two years around a thousand unsold ponies have been shot. Experts from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology predict that unless wet weather comes soon the groundwater that crops rely on will be severely depleted next year, in central England and East Anglia. And, we explore the breadth of knowledge that children can pick up from a week on the farm.
Presenter: Anna Hill
Producer: Sarah Swadling.
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