Mongolia freezes

Mongolia is experiencing one of the worst winters in 30 years. At the moment, the government declared a state of emergency and requested foreign aid to alleviate the impact of the "Itch" (Mongolian word for a variety of natural disasters) caused by severe frosts and snowfalls. Recently, the United Nations has allocated Mongolia 3, $ 7 million from the Fund for emergency UN. At this point in Mongolia lost 1, 5 million goats, 921,000 sheep, 169,000 cattle and yaks, 89,000 horses and 1,500 camels.

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1. Mongol looks in the frozen window of a city bus on March 5 in Ulaanbaatar. (Getty Images / Paula Bronstein





2. The Mongols are heated by the fire at the dump, where they earn by collecting garbage in Ulaanbaatar. Work on the dump is very hard, it means working in the cold to -25 degrees in one of the harshest winters in Mongolia.



3. Mongol broke a flashlight in a landfill in Ulaanbaatar.



4. The Mongols, collected and disposed of trash, warming themselves by the fire at the landfill in Ulaanbaatar.



5. The Mongols wearing helmets with flashlights collect garbage in a landfill in Ulaanbaatar.



6. The Mongols collect garbage in a landfill. Work on the dump - means to carry out in the cold to -25 degrees for several hours a day.



7. Mongol drags garbage in the truck at the dump.



8. Mongolian workers at the landfill in Ulaanbaatar.



9. The Mongols operate a landfill at -25 degrees.



10. Mongols collect garbage in a landfill in Ulaanbaatar.



11. Mongolian Tour worker fainted while working in a landfill



12. Mongolian herders riding on background frosty landscape Bayantsogte March 8, Tuv province.



13. Mongolian herdsman with baby goes to ger - a traditional Mongolian yurt in Bayantsogte, Tuv province.



14. Livestock in the paddock Mongolian herders, who says that this season because of the severe frosts have lost 30% of their livestock.



15. Mongolian herders Khurelsukh skinned with goats in front of his wife and child.



16. Young Mongolian herders 10-year-old is among Davaasuren dead livestock on a frozen pasture Bayantsogte. Development Programme of the United Nations is working with other UN agencies for the provision of the "cash for work", for which herders will receive income on disposal of corpses of dead animals to prevent the risk of the spread of contamination and diseases when the snow begins to melt.



17. Shepherd Munkhabat (right) sits in his home with his wife and child Anuungoo Munkhamgalan. This winter, the family lost almost half of its population of livestock.



18. Silhouette of the Mongolian frozen window city bus on March 5 in Ulaanbaatar.



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