The importance of rare breeds : webinar

This webinar will be of interest to anyone working to conserve rare livestock and poultry breeds. The Rare Breeds Trust of Australia is excited to let you know about two exciting online Zoom webinars on rare breeds that we are hosting at the end of July - this is the first. We are thrilled and honoured to have Libby Henson deliver both webinars. Libby Henson has been involved in pedigree livestock breeding and the conservation of rare breeds of farm livestock all her life. Her father was the founder chairman of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in the UK and her family are well known and well respected in the livestock world

. Libby set up and ran an equivalent to the RBST in the USA, has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, has ran a number of pedigree breed societies and was a member of the UK and Devolved Governments committee on Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR).   Register here...the webinar is free.