India and Nepal: Floods Make 2.5 Million Homeless, Chase Wild Game from National Park

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | September 3rd, 2008 | Trackback

Monsoon flooding in Bihar state, neighboring Nepal and Assam has pushed 2.5 million people out of their villages with nowhere to go. The River Kosi breached a dam in Nepal and changed course, inundating villages that had not seen a flood in 50 years. In Assam, the Brahmaputra River flooded half of Kaziranga National Park, home to the greatest concentration of endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceroses, driving animals out of the park onto adjacent hillsides. Food and clean drinking water is in short supply and the area could take weeks if not months to recover.

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