内容摘要：It may also create momentum for the SAF to challenge General Hemedti in his stronghold of Darfur, especially over the city of El Fasher, which has been under RSF siege for nearly a year.

It may also create momentum for the SAF to challenge General Hemedti in his stronghold of Darfur, especially over the city of El Fasher, which has been under RSF siege for nearly a year.

"If we don't manage numbers now, the growing goat population will have an increasingly negative impact on the environment."However, opponents of the cull insist it is "biologically impossible" for goats to multiply at such a high rate.

Mr Braithwaite, a member of the newly-former Wild Goats Conservation Group, said the goats were hefted to a wide area of open moorland.Hefted animals - like sheep in the Lake District - are accustomed and attached to a specific area of land and stay within that area without needing fences."And they roam, of course they do, they are quite nomadic," he said.

"They have this capricious browsing habit which takes them here and there looking for the nice juicy bits of nutritional food that they find and know exactly where to seek out on the hill in different seasons."[Oxygen Conservation] hasn't understood the herd, what the herd does and where the herd roams."

Langholm Moor is a Special Protection Area for hen harriers, a rare species of bird which makes its home in uplands, farmland, wetlands and grasslands.

Mr Braithwaite said that by taking out tree saplings, they are ensuring that the moorland remains a "perfect habitat" for the birds of prey.Francesca gave birth to Marley through IVF in October 2020, but the mother-of-two admitted it was a "worrying time" to be pregnant.

"We knew there was Covid in other countries but we didn't know it would equate to what it did here," she said."If you got poorly, it was hard to think what was going to happen to the baby, what was going to happen to you, I tried not to go out at all.

"Even after we had the babies we couldn't go to any pregnancy classes, it was hard."Despite these challenges, the friendship between Leo and Marley made the initial struggles worthwhile, the mothers said.