Annotations - goats reproduction

  1. Schmitz, Rob. “How Your Cashmere Sweater Is Decimating Mongolia’s Grasslands.” NPR. Mongolia, December 9, 2016. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/09/504118819/how-your-cashmere-sweater-is-decimating-mongolias-grasslands.

    Thirty years ago, when the grass grew tall, cashmere goats made up 19 percent of all livestock in Mongolia. It's 60 percent today. And that's not just because goats are eager breeders. This is about money. China, Mongolia's biggest trading partner, has strict controls on importing meat and milk from Mongolian sheep and cows but not on cashmere.

  2. Schmitz, Rob. “How Your Cashmere Sweater Is Decimating Mongolia’s Grasslands.” NPR. Mongolia, December 9, 2016. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/09/504118819/how-your-cashmere-sweater-is-decimating-mongolias-grasslands.

    Goats reproduce faster than all my other animals, even faster than my sheep!" Bish says with a frown. "Not too long ago, I used to have 20 of them. Now I've got 150. I don't want that many. They're just taking over."