GUWAHATI, India, Aug 25, 2015 (AFP) - Hundreds of rare rhinos and other animals are fleeing flooding in India’s northeast, raising fears of a rise in poaching during the exodus, a senior wildlife official said Tuesday.
A rain-flooded river has deluged the Kaziranga National Park in remote Assam state, home to the largest concentration of the world’s remaining one-horned rhinoceros.
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