THE Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is urging visitors to take care when visiting Dartmoor due to the risk of wildfires.

‘Due to the prolonged period of dry weather there is a high wildfire risk on Dartmoor’ the authority said.

‘Please take care while you’re out and about in the countryside during the Easter holidays’ it added.

The DNPA is asking please not to light BBQs or campfires; glass, cigarettes, and matches left on the ground can just as easily start a fire, and so the authority is reminding people to take any rubbish home.

‘Dry grass and gorse on the moors can very quickly catch fire and spread’ the authority said.

‘Wildfires are devastating for the animals, habitats and people who live here’ it added.