SOUTH WINSLOW — It is the end of an era for PEI biological diversity, as the last of the Island’s wild donair beasts has died of old age.
The donair beast was imported from Nova Scotia in the mid-1970s and was common on numerous family farms. When some escaped, a small breeding population of wild donair beasts was established.
Although extremely docile, a wild donair beast could cause damage to a person’s digestive tract.
As is ritual for these magnificent beasts, the body of the deceased animal will be skewered on a vertical pole and rotated slowly, and washed in a sweet-yet-tangy white sauce.
The Islander 