Temperatures in Peru’s highlands to drop drastically throughout April

Temperatures are expected to plummet to -10°C, or 14°F during the month of April throughout parts of Peru’s southern highlands, reported Peru’s National Meteorology and Hydrology Institute, or Senamhi. Though freezing temperatures are registered year-round in Tacna, Moquegua and Puno, the upcoming cold spell will be particularly intense and will spread over much of Peru’s [...]

FAO rushes emergency aid to Peru as cold spell threatens livestock

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, has made an emergency shipment of 36,800 doses of antiparasitic medicines and antibiotics to save 18,000 alpacas in the district of Pilpichaca in the highland department of Huancavelica, one of Peru’s poorest regions. “Pastures have been covered in snow which has frozen over, making grazing impossible,” Marc [...]