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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Trapped in snow, 300 yaks starve to death in Sikkim -Pramod Giri

Trapped in snow, 300 yaks starve to death in Sikkim -Pramod Giri

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published Published on May 13, 2019   modified Modified on May 13, 2019
-Hindustan Times

The district collector said about 10 to 15 yaks die every year but admitted that this year’s death toll is higher than ever before.

Siliguri:
Around 300 yaks have starved to death due to severe cold and excessive snowfall at an altitude of around 15,000 feet in north Sikkim, forcing authorities to rush medical teams to save the remaining animals.

The administration has described the incident as catastrophic and unprecedented.

To save themselves from the cold, families which earn their living by selling yak milk and cheese came down to lower altitudes, leaving the flock behind.

“Due to heavy snowfall, the yaks were stranded at one place in Mukuthang since December, which caused starvation and led to the death of the yaks,” said a press statement issued by the Sikkim government. “The deaths have been reported at Mukuthang Valley near the Indo-Tibetan border,” Raj Kumar Yadav, district collector of North Sikkim district, said. It takes a five-hour journey by vehicle and a three to four hour trek to reach the valley from Gangtok, the state capital.

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Hindustan Times, 12 May, 2019, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/trapped-in-snow-300-yaks-starve-to-death/story-xe8Y5IbLkhDBxuOnBreFTK.html?fbclid=IwAR3Njl1vEEh-x5DQzP4jWEJVx_ZPGwLBhsPEXXPRKE4


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