In 1793, goats were introduced to Hawaii’s Kahoʻolawe; their population later reached about 50,000, and 200 years later the last feral goat was removed after severe vegetation loss and erosion

• The cultural importance of the island is demonstrated by the some 3,000 archeological and historical sites and features that were documented through 2004.
• From an island carved by voyagers, farmers and sacred traditions comes the unlikely story of thousands of hungry goats.
• They grew on Kaho’olawe from a small 18th-century introduction into a herd of perhaps 50,000, stripping the vegetation and hastening erosion over the landscape.