Episode 163For the Love of Goats In this episode, Deborah Niemann is joined by Chris Gifford, president of the North American ...

Charismatic animals like elephants and snow leopards take the conservation spotlight, but wild goats and sheep need protection from illegal hunting too. Here's why.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a new rule last week intended to reduce the risk of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae transmission from domestic sheep and goats to bighorn sheep.

“A new large-scale genetic study has determined that domestic sheep and goats are the source of bronchopneumonia in bighorn sheep and mountain goats in the western United States Using nearly 600 ...

Domestic sheep and goats pose one of the biggest threats to wild bighorn sheep health, he added. “Contact between domestic sheep and bighorn sheep increases the probability of respiratory disease ...

The animals at One Heart Wild — a group of more than 70 that includes horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, bunnies, chinchillas and guinea pigs and one turkey — come to the ...

The Department of Land and Natural Resources will be conducting animal control operations, targeting feral goats, feral sheep ...

The plan would minimize domestic sheep and goat grazing and wild bighorns. No existing grazing allotments would be changed with the project, according to a 2019 Forest Service news release.

Past pneumonia outbreaks among bighorn sheep in Washington and other parts of the western United States have been linked to contact between wild sheep and domestic sheep or goats that carry ...

Domestic and wild sheep and goats can easily spread diseases. A bacteria called M. ovi is highly transmissible and has devastated bighorn sheep in Texas, TPWD said in a news release.

The animals at One Heart Wild — a group of more than 70 that includes horses, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, bunnies, chinchillas and guinea pigs and one turkey — come to the ...