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Extreme weather kills 18k pashmina goats in Ladakh [1]

Last year’s unusually dry summer and this winter’s unprecedented snowfall, the worst in nearly 50 years, in Ladakh’s Changtang area has claimed over 18,000 pashmina goats, the source of one of the

Publication Date: 
05/03/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Ladakh [3], Ladakh Plateau [4], Extreme Weather Events [5], Goats [6], Wool [7]
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