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Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct – but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds alive

  • Written by Catie Gressier, Adjunct Research Fellow in Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia
Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct – but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds aliveBerkshire pigsJWhitwell/Shutterstock

It took thousands of years to develop the world’s extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals – an estimated 8,800 livestock breeds across 38 farmed species.

But this diversity is dwindling fast. Advances in selective breeding and artificial insemination have fuelled the global spread of a small...

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