The use of animals, including Polish ponies, by grazing in protected, environmentally valuable, revitalized or damaged areas is of increasing importance. The studies analyzed the changes that took place in the newly made available part of the area for grazing Polish horses. The analysis covered forest and meadow sites and included changes in species composition, number of species, and two indices were estimated: Shannon and Simpson. The obtained results indicate that greater changes were recorded in the case of meadow than forest sites. Their natural value increased, because the level of species diversity and equality, which in their case was much lower at the beginning of the research compared to forest sites, has become similar to them.
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