Henan is located in the central plains,with mild climate conditions,and the livestock and poultry genetic resources are very rich.It is also a large province of husbandry.With the development of industrialization and urbanization,many families withdraw from the free range breeding market,and the number of local goat breeds in a large part is also sharply reduced. In addition,the local government fails to take proper measures to preserve goat breeds in time,leading to the risk of extinction of local goat breeds.In this paper,the genetic resources protection,breeding and improvement measures of five varieties of local goat,Huai goat,Funiu white goat,Yaoshan white goat,Taihang black goat and Henan milk goat were discussed.Some suggestions were put forward for the protection of local goat species in Henan province.