Use of goats to control undesirable vegetation

Resumen

The benefits of using goats (Capra hircus hircus) to control undesirable vegetation in many different environmental situations are well documented by research data. Nonetheless, this approach is severely underutilized. Environmental concerns and the increased costs of herbicides and mechanical control methods provide new opportunities to use goats as biological agents for the control of unwanted vegetation. The goat lends itself to conservation grazing better than any other domestic livestock species when utilized in a sustainable manner. Goats can be quite destructive, however, but any environmental hazard associated with goats is essentially a failure inadequate management by man.