goats

Goats are practically rock stars in Greece and when a herd decides to take a stroll at a beach it becomes a magnet for tourists and locals alike. A few years ago a bearded beachgoer made a sudden appearance on...

The small and remote Italian island of Alicudi, home to just 100 residents, is overrun by goats that now outnumber the human population by a ratio of about six to one. Desperate to address the situation, the local mayor, Riccardo...

Greek goat milk and cheese will soon receive an official certification that the dairy products came from native Greek species of goats. Over 5 million goats currently live in Greece, making it the country with the largest goat population in...

According to a recent study by Eurostat, Greece has the largest number of goats in the EU.

Maria Retsa, a 20-year-old shepherd from Greece, has gone viral on TikTok after showing her daily life managing livestock in the Greek countryside. Retsa is the only woman in her small town of Gavala on the island of Evia who...

On the Greek island of Samothraki, in the north Aegean Sea, goats are now posing an imminent threat to the natural environment as a result of overgrazing, according to a new Associated Press (AP) report. Goats far outnumber humans on...

Greece comes first in Europe in the number of grazing goats, as approximately 4.5 million goats are bred in the country, amounting to 47.6 percent of milk-producing goats in the EU. Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Zootechnics of...