Drought in southern Africa causes mass livestock deaths

A long-term drought in southern Africa, which has been observed there since the beginning of this year, has led to the death of many thousands of farm animals. According to the scientific portal Naked Science, such conclusions were made in a recent study by scientists from the Climate Hazards Center (CHC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. According to them, the southeast of Angola, the north of Botswana, as well as most of Zambia and Zimbabwe were especially hard hit. In particular, in the latter country alone, more than nine thousand cases of cattle deaths were identified. In total, at least 1.4 million animals are at risk in all these countries. The reasons were a huge shortage of drinking water, as well as the death of large areas of grass in pastures. The cause of the drought was the natural phenomenon El Niño, which has been going on for several months in a row, which we have already written about several times. Let us recall that this is the name for the ...