Little did Pellissa Ton, a rancher from San Salvador de Tolo, Jussà Pallars, that his flock had the last examples of authentic Catalan race, officially extinct since 2005. The animals were made famous by the discovery of the Slow Food Association, which has among its objectives, specifically, recovery of species and varieties of flora and fauna.
In total we have retained about 40 goats, of which 22 have been acquired by the company and moved to a livestock farm Vilanova de Meià. There will be a project of conservation and reproduction to ensure the continuity of this ancestral species, especially characteristic of the area of \u200b\u200bLleida, and analyze its viability as producers of milk and as actors in forest management, such as the role they can play in cleaning forest.
The farmer has kept the family's livestock unmixed copies, thus has guaranteed the purity of the species, which was widespread in Lleida until the middle of last century. In this sense, the authenticity of the goats of Sant Salvador de Toló not been able to prove via DNA, because they would not be officially extinguished samples were collected with which to compare the specimens found now. However, the descriptions are preserved in various library materials and photographic evidence entirely consistent with the characteristics of the flock. The Montsec, where goats have now found, was the last stronghold of a species that had come to be widely spread from the Val d'Aran to the plain of Lleida. Slow Food
now focus its efforts on adaptation of goats to dedicate the new habitat after the breeding and reproduction of the best examples. As a method to raise sponsorship funds will revert to a system that served the ruc català. In this case, the reward could be in products of goat milk.
Source: Elmundo.es
In total we have retained about 40 goats, of which 22 have been acquired by the company and moved to a livestock farm Vilanova de Meià. There will be a project of conservation and reproduction to ensure the continuity of this ancestral species, especially characteristic of the area of \u200b\u200bLleida, and analyze its viability as producers of milk and as actors in forest management, such as the role they can play in cleaning forest.
The farmer has kept the family's livestock unmixed copies, thus has guaranteed the purity of the species, which was widespread in Lleida until the middle of last century. In this sense, the authenticity of the goats of Sant Salvador de Toló not been able to prove via DNA, because they would not be officially extinguished samples were collected with which to compare the specimens found now. However, the descriptions are preserved in various library materials and photographic evidence entirely consistent with the characteristics of the flock. The Montsec, where goats have now found, was the last stronghold of a species that had come to be widely spread from the Val d'Aran to the plain of Lleida. Slow Food
now focus its efforts on adaptation of goats to dedicate the new habitat after the breeding and reproduction of the best examples. As a method to raise sponsorship funds will revert to a system that served the ruc català. In this case, the reward could be in products of goat milk.
Source: Elmundo.es
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