The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to intervene to save approximately 18,000 alpacas in Pilpichaca, Peru.

"The animals are sick due to an extreme out-of-season cold wave, agronomic frost, snow falls and hail which have damaged crops and grazing land on the Andean highlands,” said Marc Vandersmissen, FAO emergency co-ordinator in the country. He added that they will be given anti-parasite medicine and antibiotics.

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