Over the past five years alone, some 60 breeds of cattle, goats, pigs, horses and poultry have become extinct, the Rome-based UN agency said in a draft document, blaming globalization as the “biggest single factor” in the erosion of livestock biodiversity.
“Of the more than 7,600 breeds in FAO’s global database of farm animal genetic resources, 190 have become extinct in the past 15 years and a further 1,500 are considered at risk of extinction,” the draft says.
Some 150 experts from 90 countries met in Rome this week to review the findings, the first of their kind on a global scale.
Rearing livestock contributes to the livelihoods of one billion people in the world.
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