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Livestock Biodiversity Conservation

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Today, the biodiversity maintenance is one of the most concern of human kind all over the world, as domestic breeds and wild species strains are at risk and human intervention are essential to ensure their survival. Livestock Genetic Diversity Conservation emerges a rapid interest because of some reasons such as excessive crossbreeding for the maximum meat, milk and egg production; the alarming decrease rate due to high commercialization of meat; and the unexpected death of valuable animals genes due to climate change which resulted in the loss of species and their identities leading to a genetic erosion and rapid decrease in biodiversity.
Genetic diversity plays an important role for the survivability of species in future challenges such as climate change, diseases and shifting market demands. It helps the farmers and pastoralist to improve production of their breeds and strengthens the adaptability of livestock …show more content…

The Buffalo population in the Philippines is approximately 3.06 million heads (BAS, 2011) and in 2010 per capita utilization of carabeef was 1.41 kg per year (BAS, 2012a, 2012b) and in 2011 buffalo milk production was 36.4 percent of 16.5 million liters of total fresh milk production (BAS, 2012c). The buffalo production in 2011 has a value of PhP 10.08 billion with 99.6 percent of country’s total buffalo are being raised in the backyard and used for a long history of farm operation (BAS, 2012c). Philippine Native Water Buffalo, made a vast contributions in field works, especially in farmers, it is primarily a draught animal and source of milk and meat, known to be a resilient animal, and can adapt to local environment and had a heat tolerance and disease resistance genes such as TIM-3 and GAL-9 thus, making it a reasonable for determining and conservation of genetic

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