For close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand’s economy and numbers boomed — peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people.

The Save Our Sheep campaign challenges carbon forestry policy and defends diverse rural enterprises built on evidence, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country’s scant human population has long been the subject of jokes aimed at New Zealanders abroad. It ...

For close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand’s economy, and numbers boomed, peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people.