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It's a grim sight for Mongolia's livestock farmers, piles of dead animals. A bitter winter coming on top of a severe drought has left their livestock without enough food to sustain them through the freezing weather, reports The Malay Mail Online.
The deadly combination has already killed some 200,000 animals, according to government figures.
Herder Bayankhand Myagmar has lost more than 400 of hers.
“I feel ashamed that I lost the animals, it's hard to face other people because of that,” Myagmar said.
Similar conditions in 2009 killed 9.7 million animals.
Officials say this year is shaping up to be even worse.
Thousands of farmers face the prospect of losing their entire herds, according to Hler Gudjonsson, with the Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
“For most of these people nothing waits except moving to the cities, where nothing really waits except terrible poverty,” said Gudjonsson.
Aid agencies say the most of the animals die in March, April and May.
They've issued an urgent appeal for funds to help keep the herds, and the way of life they provide, alive.
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