Longhorn cattle

Longhorn cattle can be many colours but they are almost always brindle (splattered/stripey) with a white line down the spine. They have long backs and can have very impressive horns.

Longhorn cow at Covert Wood

Other conservation grazers

Exmoor ponies

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

Iron-Age Pigs

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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.

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.