The Cumbria Wildlife Trust has recently issued a public notice warning people not to feed the fell ponies at Clints Quarry nature reserve. The Trust issued the plea after several "well-meaning" passers-by tried feeding the ponies after assuming the animals were lost. The three young ponies have been brought in to the nature reserve, near Egremont, for three months to graze the vegetation on the nature reserve in order to allow rare flowers such as orchids to thrive. "Feeding the ponies is not good for them or for the amazing wildlife in this site, which is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest," said the Trust's Reserves Officer, Sarah Dalrymple.