The main arid rangelands are Thar, Cholistan, Dera Ghazi Khan,Tharparkar, Kohistan, and western Balochistan. Severe drought periods in 2000 and 2002 affected livelihoods, resulted in human deaths, pushed tens of thousands people to migrate, and killed large numbers of cattle. This drought led to 120 deaths and affected 2,200,000 people.