: In Kashmir, summer snowstorms prove fatal for livestock of nomadic tribes #IndiaNEWS Every spring, some 40,000 people travel to the pastures of the Neelum valley, along with 3,00,000 livestock. They

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In Kashmir, summer snowstorms prove fatal for livestock of nomadic tribes #IndiaNEWS
Every spring, some 40,000 people travel to the pastures of the Neelum valley, along with 3,00,000 livestock. They ascend to altitudes of up to 10,000 feet, or 3,048 metres, to graze their animals on the open meadows of the high Himalayan valley, and stay until the end of August. The four months of high-altitude grazing allow the rest of the family at lower elevations to grow fodder which will keep the animals alive through the snowy winter, Saddaqat Hussan Shah, chair of the Neelum Valley Development Board, told The Third Pole.But this year, pastoralists were hit hard by severe summer snow. On and June 21-22, up to four feet of snow fell in the Neelum Valley, killing 1,932 goats, 350 sheep, 80 cattle and 20 horses, according to Akhtar Ayub of the District Disaster Management Authority, Neelum Valley.Surprise snowstorm“We lost 107 goats due to the June snowfall�, said Chaudhry Shabbir, a 45-year-old pastoralist from Mansehra in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Along with two fellow members of the Bakarwal nomad community – plus 650 goats and sheep – Shabbir had travelled 200km on foot to reach pastures at Ratti Galli in the Neelum Valley, at 12,139 feet, or 3,683 metres. There they spent one and a...Read more

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