The only two goats left in Avon Gorge will have to wait for new companions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bristol City Council was planning to restock the herd in “goat gully” but those plans have been delayed by Covid-19.
Six wild Kashmiri goats were introduced into the steep section of the gorge by Seawalls in 2011 to control scrub growth and restore rare wildflowers and grasses.
But the number has dwindled to two since then as the goats either succumbed to old age or fell to their deaths.
Two goats died of old age last year and two were chased off the cliffs by dogs in separate incidents in 2017.
The council’s grounds supervisor, Ben Skuse, said plans to travel to the Great Orme in Wales to get four more goats had been delayed by the pandemic.
In a report to the Downs Committee on June 29, he said: “In terms of the goats, there was a plan to travel to the Great Orme in June to get four more animals to restock our herd to six animals.
“Due to Covid this plan has been delayed.”
Mr Skuse said he would update the committee with future plans at a later date.
The Great Orme is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, northwest of the town of Llandudno.
The Avon Gorge runs through a limestone ridge and is the only place in the world where the rare Bristol onion and Bristol rock cress grow.
The Kashmiri goats were brought in to graze in the gorge because they eat woody plants in preference to the rare plant species because of their primitive stomachs.
The area they graze - a section which drops sharply away from the plateau at the top to the south of the Seawalls section of Clifton Down - has become known as "goat gully".
