Worldwide backing from more than 20,000 people is set to help a campaign to save the endangered Suffolk Punch horse.

Their petitions have been signed, sealed and delivered and the East Anglian Daily Times is to compile a dossier to go with them to the Home Office seeking to safeguard the breed’s future.

Letters, petitions and e-mails from as far away as Australia, New Zealand and America have shown how thousands of people were moved by the plight of the horse, which is now rarer than the giant panda.

Horse experts are backing the public’s wish not to see the example of the county’s heritage become extinct.

Suffolk Horse Society chairman Judith Phillips said: “I have a feeling that the Suffolk Punch has touched a lot of people’s hearts and generations of people remember the horses working the land.

“I am sure a solution to the problem can be found.”

Ministers say the future of the horse is not in jeopardy but experts claim a new stud farm is required.

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