300 yaks starve to death in North Sikkim

Gangtok Nearly 300 yaks have died due to starvation following heavy snowfall in North Sikkim district since late last year an official has said The North Sikkim District Magistrate Raj Yadav confirmed the death of around 300 yaks due to starvation during heavy snow fall in Mukuthang and Yumthang regions since December 2018Around 300 Yaks died of starvation in Mukuthang North Sikkim India due to excessive snowfall Dept_AHD peta Natural or ManMade disaster pictwittercomqG1cJOkWWmmdash abhinay bhandari AbhinayBhandari May 11 2019While carcasses of around 250 yaks were found in Mukuthang region 50 yak carcasses were found in Yumthang recently Yadav said on Saturday It appears that these dead yaks had got nothing to eat during the prolonged period of snowfall since December last year Yadav said The animal husbandry departments medical team has reached Mukuthang he said300 Himalayan yaks died of starvation in Indias northeast due to heavy snowfall httpstcoQ7ymzR03FP grandsolarmdash Grand Solar Minimum grand_solar May 11 2019The team carried feed and fodder for the yaks which are still alive he said adding the yaks will also be examined by the medical team The yaks belonged to 15 families in Mukuthang and 10 families in Yumthang he saidThe affected families will get compensations on the basis of a report that is being prepared by the district administration and the IndoTibetan Border Police he addedRecent animal deathsFive stray cows lodged at a temporary shelter home in Uttar Pradeshs Shamli district died allegedly of cold an official The deaths were reported from a shelter home in Sambhalna village which comes under the jurisdiction of Babri police station and an inquiry has been ordered said SubDivisional Magistrate Prashant Kumar The carcasses were sent for postmortem he saidAt least 25 cows have died at a government shelter in Mathana village here due to incessant rains and nonavailability of fodder Continuous rains led to waterlogging in the shelter A number of cows got stuck in the swampy land and died A few others starved to death and many have fallen sick Kiran Bala the village head said Haryana Gau Sewa Commission chairman Bhani Das Mangla and a few district administration officials visited the cow shelter to take stock SubDivisional Magistrate Narinder Pal Malik asked officials to shift the sick cows to a cattle shelter in Karnal Ashok Papneja former president of Shri Krishan gaushala that provides fodder to the government cattle shelter said the district administration had raised a boundary wall around sevenandahalf acres of village panchayat land and built it At present there are over 600 cows in the shelter which lacks proper facilities There is no fodder and drinking water available for so many cows he claimedThe decomposed body of an adult male leopard was found in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park SGNP Investigations are on into the cause of death but sources from the park said the animal might have died of old age and not poaching as all its body parts ndash claws teeth skin were intact A patrolling team of the park spotted the decomposed body of the leopard near some bushes They informed senior officials including the park directorCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates