At the end of the 19th Century James Carrol, New Zealand Minister for native affairs sent a gift of Angora goats to the people of the Te Urewera.

He’d hoped that despatching the herd to the mountain interior of the region would spur the growth of a lucrative manufacturing industry. Unfortunately, soon after the sure footed creatures became established, their wild offspring created so much damage to the flora and fauna that all of them had to be culled.