Tasmanian sheep breeder Ian Downie is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the cormo, an Australian sheep breed developed in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Back in 1959 the first cormo lambs were born ...
When it comes to giving gifts, what's the most you've spent? Does $16,000 sound a bit extravagant? Turning their sheep's fleece into fabric was an expensive labour of love for the Cooper family ...
The 47,000 sheep that were aboard the Cormo Express a year ago are long dead. After spending two months on a live animal trade ship, that was moved around the Persian Gulf as though it carried the ...
Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...
Their new home will be in the Eritrean highlands, bringing to an end a huge animal rights campaign which began shortly after they left the Australian port of Fremantle on 5 August. The plight of the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The Cormo Express, the sheep carrier at the centre of a reignited debate about live trade after Saudi Arabia rejected its 57,000 animals, ...