(NZ) Arapawa goats/REPRIEVED until MARCH! MORE SIGNATURES/CONTACT NZDOC!

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Arapawa goats/REPRIEVED until MARCH! MORE SIGNATURES/CONTACT NZDOC!

 

Target: stopping the scheduled killing of Arapawa goats in New Zealand

Sponsored by: P.E. Van Alstyne

 

December 26 2007

" There are feral strains that are of historical and scientific interest, such as

the Arapawa goats... " Conservation Society of New Zealand.

 

Arapawa Island goats - WERE doomed to be culled in January - are believed to be

descendants of the Old English goats that died out in the UK during the severe

winter of 1954. There are, worldwide, no more than 360.

 

Recognising that the Arapawa goat is a separate breed of goat and not a

crossbred feral, the Committee of the Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New

Zealand gave and approved the goats (HYPERLINK

" http://www.rarebreeds.co.nz/priority.html " ) " rare breed priority " listing at

its meeting of 27 May 2004.

 

However, the new Minister for Conservation, (HYPERLINK

" http://www.stevechadwick.co.nz/ " ) Stephanie Chadwick, sees them -

not as a unique genetic resource - but as vermin. In connection with her scheme

for removing all " pests " from other islands she (HYPERLINK

" http://www.conservation.govt.nz/templates/news.aspx?id=45432 " ) recently spoke

of " restoring the islands and repopulating them with rare native species... " - a

sort of ethnic cleansing of fauna to preserve the flora. (The goats nibble the

trees and bushes but do not destroy them. See (HYPERLINK

" http://www.jennessfarm.com/ArapawaGoats.cfm?custID=2552 " www.jennessfarm.com/Ara\

pawaGoats)

 

We are told that between January 7th and 25th January the Arapawa Island goats

are to be shot. If you share our dismay, please (HYPERLINK

" http://www.warmwell.com/arapawagoats.html " ) read more.