{"id":317858,"date":"2021-08-06T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heatwave-turns-already-arid-kazakh-steppe-into-mass-grave-for-horses\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:50:33","slug":"heatwave-turns-already-arid-kazakh-steppe-into-mass-grave-for-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heatwave-turns-already-arid-kazakh-steppe-into-mass-grave-for-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"#Heatwave turns already arid Kazakh steppe into mass grave for horses"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Heatwave turns already arid Kazakh steppe into mass grave for horses<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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AKSHYMYRAU, Kazakhstan, Aug 6 \u2013 Dead horses lie scattered across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan\u2019s Mangistau peninsula where severe drought has left the animals without food or water, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers.<\/p>\n

Unusually high temperatures, in some cases the highest on record, have been reported throughout the former Soviet region of Central Asia this summer, prompting Kazakhstan to ban exports of animal feed and seek extra water from its neighbors.<\/p>\n

In Mangistau, this has meant that horses have nothing to graze on and prices of hay and barley have skyrocketed. Some farmers tear wet cardboard into pieces to mix with feed for extra volume.<\/p>\n

Horse meat and fermented mare\u2019s milk are staples of the Kazakh diet and breeding horses, along with camels, is a traditional occupation in Mangistau.<\/p>\n

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Horses graze in the steppe outside the village of Akshymyrau amid severe\u00a0drought\u00a0in\u00a0Mangistau\u00a0Region,\u00a0Kazakhstan\u00a0July 27, 2021. <\/figcaption>
Reuters\/Pavel Mikheyev<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gabidolla Kalynbayuly, 70, worked as a sheepherder before retiring in 2002 and setting up a horse farm in Akshymyrau, a village of about 1,300 people.<\/p>\n

But 20 of Kalynbayuly\u2019s horses have already died this summer, reducing the herd to 150 and many have been weakened by malnutrition, making them vulnerable to parasites and illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they die out there in the field, we cannot even bring them back to the village to report the death,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Grazing in the area had been poor for the last three years, he said, but until this year\u2019s extreme heat, there was still enough grass for horses to feed on.<\/p>\n

A Reuters reporter saw dozens of dead horses during a trip<\/a> through the area. The ribs of emaciated horses still alive are clearly visible.<\/p>\n

Mangistau province as a whole has reported more than 1,000 horse, cattle and sheep deaths and the government has said it is sending barley to the area.<\/p>\n

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Carcasses of animals lie on the ground outside the village of Tushchykudyk amid severe drought in Mangistau Region, Kazakhstan July 27, 2021. <\/figcaption>
Reuters\/Pavel Mikheyev<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to rising global temperatures, Mangistau is becoming more susceptible to drought because the Caspian Sea, by which it is almost surrounded, is becoming shallower, says environmental scientist Orynbasar Togzhanov, based in provincial capital Aktau on the coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is ebb and flow, but the sea has not reached its old maximum water level for the last 100 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Svetlana Dolgikh, the head of climate studies at state weather forecaster Kazgidromet, said average temperatures in Kazakhstan were rising by 0.3 degrees Celsius every decade.<\/p>\n

There might be some temporary positives, she said, such as more rain and winter snow in Kazakhstan\u2019s northern grain-growing regions predicted by all current models, but agriculture as a whole is considered at risk from climate change.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Heatwave turns already arid Kazakh steppe into mass grave for horses” AKSHYMYRAU, Kazakhstan, Aug 6 \u2013 Dead horses lie scattered across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan\u2019s Mangistau peninsula where severe drought has left the animals without food or water, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers. Unusually high temperatures, in some cases the highest on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/2021-08-06T105744Z_165845967_RC24TO9TFF0P_RTRMADP_3_KAZAKHSTAN-DROUGHT-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113541,70540,10595,72150,87282,64827,51935],"class_list":["post-317858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-6-21","tag-droughts","tag-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heat-wave","tag-horses","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}