Langeland’s Wild Horses

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Jonas Legarth

Research has shown that the Exmoor pony is the race of horse that genetically is closest to Denmark’s original wild horses. An Exmoor pony is circa 130cm high, with a broad body and muscular, black legs.

Gulstav Mose

Jonas Legarth

Their coats are brown in colour. Its winter coat made up of both short “wooly” hairs and longer “guard” hairs and in fact this winter coat can be so thick that snow can lie on the back of a pony without melting.

Gulstav Mose

Jonas Legarth

The wild horses

Here you can meet Langeland’s Wild Horses

The Wild Horses - Gulstav Mose

The south tip of Langeland is home to a large nature reserve with open grasslands, lakes and ponds, wetlands, woodland and cliffs. Here you can encoun...

The Wild Horses - Klise Nor

A beautiful nature reserve north of Bagenkop. A small herd of wild horses can be seen grazing here.

The Wild Horses - Flådet, Tranekær

You can encounter wild horses in the area known as “Flådat” south of the town of Tranekær and its impressive castle. The landscape around Tranekær is ...

Wild horses and Cattle at Skovsgaard

Here you can find a 245 hectares enclosure where cattle and wild horses live outdoors all year round. This means that they are never given food and ar...

Gulstav Mose

Jonas Legarth

Grazing an area with wild animals creates the foundations for a healthy natural habitat, it increases biodiversity and brings back a natural dynamic to the countryside. The animals help create a landscape consisting of grassland, ponds, wetlands, open woodland and scrub.

Skovsgaard Gods

John Rasmussen

In Denmark bone of wild horses have been found that are up to 11,500 years old. At this time horses were an attractive quarry for hunters. Wild horses are usually considered to be an animal of the open steppe, but in Denmark they also lived in the ancient Danish forests. It is believed that the last wild horses in Europe died out around 1870.

Skovsgaard Gods

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Moo!

You can also see many other animals here….

If you are roaming around the island close to sunrise or sunset, you will be unlucky not to see roe or fallow deer. In some places you can also see Highland cattle grazing in the fields. Birdlife on Langeland is exceptional and finally we have a population of rare black squirrels.

Langeland er et af Danmarks fuglerigeste områder

Bird Reserves

Birds - especially migratory birds, love Langeland.

The black squirrels of North Langeland

For some 11,000 years the black squirrel has been Denmark’s “the king of the trees”. The black squirrel was once an endangered colour variant of the European red squirrel, but a “rescue mission” has now secured its survival. Today the black squirrel is thriving in the woodlands of North La...

Highland Cattle

One of the places you can see grazing highland cattle is in the pastures next to Ristinge Klint.

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