When we first lived in New Zealand in 2007-2008, the South Island boasted 14 million sheep and 1 million people. Today that sheep to human ratio has changed with 13 million sheep and 1,149,564 people. As a side note, roughly two-thirds of the entire population of New Zealand lives on the North Island. The decline in sheep is due to an increase in dairy cattle and with that comes additional challenges, as we will learn in our adventures together, for water quality. So, already, Ag and environmental research conducted in NZ has implications (and vice versa) for our own water quality here in our own agricultural (and lawn based) State of Florida. Lots to think about, m : )
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