Reply #23: My retired veterinarian went to Haiti for several years

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To teach the farmers how to castrate their goats and to improve their management. The idea was to convince them to have better quality but fewer goats and to keep them confined so their did not turn their environment into a desert.

He spent several years down there but had to leave because of his health - he had a heart attack and had to be emergency air lifted back to the US for open heart surgery. By the time he healed, another coup had happened and he never went back.

One of the islands off California was denuded by goats, but animal lovers screamed when the authorities wanted to have goat hunts to rid it of the invasive animals. I don't know whatever happened - that was a very long time ago when I saw it in the news.