A shadow that disturbed thousands of alpacas victims of the intense cold. This animals which care is part of the activities of the native people. The villagers were really alarmed because they are their only source of income. “El tiempo”, try to illustrate this problem in the article published.

Una sombra que perturbo a cientos de miles de alpacas, victimas del intenso frio, estos animales, que forman parte de la vida de los pastores del lugar, se vieron  realmente alarmados ya que estos significan la única fuente de ingresos, “el tiempo”, nos trata de ilustrar este problema en el artículo que publico.

The cold that has claimed over 400 deaths in Peru has also affected herds of alpacas in the highlands of the country, where only in the Puno region 480 000 animals are endangered.

A child carries a dead alpaca in the cold Andean community of Puno, southeastern Peru. EFE

That amount represents 25 per cent of the group of this camelid living in the Peruvian region representing for many families their main source of livelihood.

The lack of food and shelter to protect alpacas from these low temperatures, that in some points have reached 23 degrees below zero, worries the alpaca owners of the area, struggling to avoid the humane killing of their animals.

Thus, people must devote constant attention to their animals, which often causes the respiratory diseases of the children to occupy a second level of importance.

"In the field, parents prefer to give more attention to livestock, because that activity generates them the only income to support her family," said the magistrate Hanajquia community, Daniel Calcina.

So far this year 409 people have died as a result of pneumonia associated with low temperatures.

Lima, EFE. July 26, 2010

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