Roughly 350 livestock were left dead after a stockyard caught fire in the Kharkhorin soum of Uvurkhangai province. Firefighters battled the fire for four hours.

In a different incident, officers from the Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency extinguished a fire of burning cattle dung in Khuvsgul province’s Tarialan soum in the north of the country.

Over  710,000 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather known as ‘dzud’. Nearly 40 percent of the country’s nomad population is dependent on animal husbandry and rain-fed agriculture for livelihood. Climate change is making the life of the country’s nomads ever more precarious.