The environmental impact of goats: uprooting the narrative

Every few years, an old story resurfaces in the popular media: goats are especially harmful to the environment because they uproot plants, preventing them from regrowing and thus turning grasslands into deserts. The destructive tendencies of goats in these accounts have “unleashed some of the worst...

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Main Authors: Cara Loomis, Carol Kerven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Animal Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fanim.2025.1544366/full