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Climate change: intense cold front has killed 20,000 alpaca in Puno so far this year

August 13, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern Altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed at least 20,000 alpaca, reported Peru’s National Agriculture and Sanitation Service, or Senasa. Since January, approximately 20,000 alpaca – a number that still remains within normal limits – [...]