84 percent of native Spanish livestock breeds are in danger of disappearing

84% of the native Spanish livestock breeds are in danger of disappearing, including six Asturians: the Casina or Asturian mountain, the Salda sheep, the Bermeya goat, the Asturceltic gochu, the Asturcón horse and the pita pinta. These are data included in the study entitled "Conserving our native breeds: the animal genetic resources bank of the Principality of Asturias", an investigation by the Regional Agri-Food Research and Development Service (Serida) that was presented this Tuesday in the Asturian parliament. The researcher Carolina Tamargo has explained that at the end of 2021 the genealogical books in Spain registered more than five million animals located in more than one hundred thousand farms, of which four million belonged to native breeds in 80,000 farms involved in their breeding. By type of cattle, among the native Spanish breeds, 82.5% of the coils are in danger of disappearing; 78.7% of ...