New York park brings wild goats to eat overgrown weeds A park in New York City, USA, is often “invaded” by overgrown weeds, so people have devised a way to bring wild goats to eat grass. This way not only helps wild goats to eat, but also does not need to spend money on hiring people to use herbicides that are harmful to the environment – this can be considered a “full way”.
Wild goats are an effective tool in killing weeds, being environmentally friendly and cost-effective. (Image: Pixabay)
This park also organizes an activity to vote for the most famous goat for 5 goats used for grazing with the hope that they will become the “stars” of New York City.
Riverside Park in the Manhattan area of New York City is located on the Upper West Side. This park cooperates with wild goat farms to select the right chamois to take on the task of “killing grass”. 24 chamois were sent to this park to remove weeds on July 14.
Park manager Dan Garodnick said the wild goats eat any type of grass. They can eat cypress trees, berries and wild micro-walls, and can easily traverse difficult-to-reach terrain.
Riverside Park’s use of chamois to remove weeds is seen as a “win-win strategy”. This park does not need to use chemicals to kill grass and these wild goats can be satiated, their excreta can also be used as fertilizer.
The park side indicated that out of 24 wild goats on duty this time, 5 will stay at the 2-hectare park until the end of August to continue to perform the lawn mowing task. These 5 chamois are named Buckles, Chalupa, Mallemar, Skittles and Ms. Bo Peep.
Besides inviting people to the park to see these wild goats graze, the park has also specially organized a voting activity for them and is expected to announce the results before the end of summer.
In addition, in the US state of California recently, a herd of wild goats was taken by the authorities to eat weed in the hope that it could form a fire line to reduce the possibility of forest fires.
Every year, the West Coast of the United States has many serious wildfires, last year in California more than 4 million acres were burned, becoming the most serious disaster in history.
To prevent wildfires, the city of Glendale, California, this month used about 80 chamois to clear hay from the hills. Years ago, these grasses were very flammable, so they became a hazard to residential areas.
