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Konik ponies sparring at the National Trust's Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire on Monday, March 27, 2023. The grazing animals, a hardy breed originating from Poland, help to maintain “one of Europe's most important wetlands” and attract new species of flora and fauna to the fen, leaving water-filled hoof prints and piles of dung as they go. Comprising one of only four fragments of undrained fen in the UK, Wicken Fen is a key habitat for thousands of species of flowers, insects and birds, playing an important ecological role by locking up carbon in its wet, peaty soil to reduce emissions and thereby helping combat the climate crisis. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)
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