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| Prison inmates help care for sheep on the endangered species list |
| By wtol.com |
| Published: 04/18/2018 |
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WALLA WALLA, WA (KVEW/CNN) - Inmates in a Washington prison are participating in a program to help raise sheep that are on the endangered species list, and giving them the skills to help them once they are released. “There’s a lot of us in prison who could use this type of learning, education,” said Justin Lange, an inmate caring for bighorn sheep at Washington State Penitentiary. The Sustainability in Prisons Project is teaching inmates how to work with bighorn sheep, which has been ravaged by deadly bacterium that causes pneumonia. Bighorn sheep, once widespread in North America, is now an endangered species, in part because of the he bacteria called Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, known as M. ovi. The program hopes it can breed sheep without the disease and then sell them to farmers and ranchers. Read More. |
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