Bilberry Goat

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1,000 feral goats have been destroyed in Ireland every week. The Bilberry Goats are part of a project i started in 1999 to try and preserve Feral Goat Herds. Four similar projects are running country wide and very successful alas time is running out they were 275 feral goat herds in Ireland in 1989 today 2012 they are 27 Feral goat herds left.
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Country Ireland, IRL
Location Bilberry Rock, Waterford, Ireland
Species Goat
Management feral
Population size 28
History Bilberry Rock and environs is the habitat of the unique Bilberry Goat Herd. The Bilberry Goat Herd originated when a number of Huguenots (French Protestants) who were persecuted for their faith, fled France and came to Waterford to live. When they arrived at the Quays in Waterford, they brought the goats which they had on board ship, up to Bilberry Rock to graze on common land.
Contact Martin Doyle ; bilberrygoatheritagetrustathotmail.com
Remarks acute danger of extinction
Source of information http://www.bilberrygoatheritagetrust.com

 

Bilberry Goat

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Bilberry Goat heritage Trust
 

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