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“El Niño is a true rural catastrophe,” said Jose Felix Lafaurie, president of the Colombian Federation of Cattle (Fedegan) a week , while indicating that the animals have died of thirst and, therefore, the sector’s losses are more 850 billion.
Regions with more dead species from June 2015 to January 2016, are Magdalena (11,476), La Guajira (6,747) and Sucre (5,307), said El Colombiano .
The El Niño phenomenon has also affected milk production, which fell 20%, the magazine wrote.
Revealed that the National Risk Management Unit to the second half, where he reported that the number corresponds to data from the end of 2015 to January 2016, and the recovery of these areas could take up to 30 years.
And is that these 128,000 hectares are affected about 23 forest, so it is estimated that last year losses ecosystem services and forest fires could amount to 3 billion pesos, said National Planning, added the form.
35% of these losses is wood “that stop trading in burned forests” and the other 65% to “ecosystem services provided by forests: water regulation, climate, carbon sequestration, erosion control and sedimentation, “we read in the newspaper.
Counting this year alone, Magdalena, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Casanare and Huila are the most affected departments. Of the capital, Bogota is the most hectares of forest lost (100), 18 forest fires, 173 fires, 57 attempts of fire, firefighters from the city they said.
Therefore, in addition it has been reported food shortages in districts of the Caribbean coast that can only be transporting supplies by boat, according to Semana.
Magdalena has 10 critical points and has reached such low levels that since “you can not even measure” how much water runs out there. Something similar happens with the Cauca River and the Sambingo disappeared.
In addition to rivers, lakes also have low levels, one of the most liquid lost is the Calima 82% less than its reflecting pool, the magazine reported.
To date, there are 316 municipalities at risk of shortage of drinking water. Today 96 have partial shortages and 90 are with rationing, published week.
One of the most worrying case is that of the Wayúu in La Guajira, but there are serious problems due to lack of water in other coastal towns such as Plato, Barranco de Loba and Mompox, where the river is at low level “can walk across “and just captures the aqueduct intake mud.
It is recalled that in La Guajira alert because there are about 15 thousand children are at risk of malnutrition, pointed Caracol Radio.
Courtesy of pulzo.com
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