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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Ross

Sheep rustlers turn beautiful UK national park into ‘Wild West’

A much-loved national park where herds of sheep graze has been likened to the Wild West by a farmer who says he has lost thousands of ewes to thieves over the past decade.

Colin Abel’s family has been farming sheep on Dartmoor National Park since the 1880s, but a rise in sheep rustlings across the vast moorland is now pushing his eighth-generation farm to the brink.

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