Although water has been distributed with tank cars in some critical points, the situation is dangerous for the capybaras (or chigüiros). “The time of summer mortality and they do not take serious measures,” they denounce in Casanare.
Colombia News.
At the beginning of March, the critical situation due to the drought began to be known, as every year in the sheets of Casanare, “the death of summer without measures being taken to mitigate it” they denounce, and those most affected by the lack of water and food, the capybaras and chigüiros, yes, those that also appeared in the movie Encanto.
The drought in that department has been since January.
“These animals can’t take it anymore,” was the complaint on March 28. At some points they are waiting for “virtually a miracle”.
The critical points identified are “in the lateral loans of the road to Centro Gaitán”, reported from Risk Management.
Rodents are the most affected by the lack of water, with savannah without any herbs or other species. You don’t have to eat or enough water.
The situation is so critical that they do not run away when people approach them.
They stay close to small puddles.
Some measures have been implemented by Corporinoquia, such as the maintenance of windmills, built in identified areas and where “a large number of species are preserved.”
And they are currently evaluating the construction of more wells.
However, the criticism has not been long in coming, «every year it is the same; Neither the owners of the farms, the mayors, the government, nor Corporinoquia do anything to prevent the mortality of the summer.
In addition to the capybaras or capybaras, there are other wild species typical of Casanare such as white-tailed deer, spectacled alligators, iguanas, palm bears, savannah turtles, tamanduas, foxes, armadillos and mountain lions also experiencing difficulties due to the drought.
And they leave this summer to go to the effects of winter, a time for which there are not enough measures to protect fauna, flora or people.
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