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Nepal-Tibet death toll rises amid new flood fears and race to free group trapped in tunnel
Combined toll of at least 750 dead and more than 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood
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‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital
Thousands of people remain missing after the catastrophic flash flood that has killed more than 700 people in Nepal and Tibet as authorities warn search and rescue teams of rising waters.
The combined toll in Nepal and Tibet has climbed to 750 dead and more than 3,000 people missing. Chinese authorities on Sunday reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, of whom 261 were foreign nationals, while Nepali officials confirmed 734 dead and 2,498 people missing. Continue reading...
![Screenshot of a scan of Player, I.C.; Feely, J.M. 1960. A preliminary report on the square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum. Lammergeyer 1 (1): 3-23, pl. 1, maps 1-3. It reads:
In eighty years it had been reduced to its present territory where it was from then on protected. This rapid extinction appears to have been the result of the low reproductive replacement rate combined with a sudden increase in mortality. Even a small increase in mortality in a species with these characteristics is sufficient to reduce its population to a point where it naturally dies out. That the mortality due to man was not negligible is made quite clear by the very few hunters who put pen to paper, recording for instance the destruction of eighty animals by two men in one hunting season alone, or the slaughter of eight at a water-hole in a single day. Ansell (op cit.) quoting Clay (in lilt.) records that one European trader in Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], on the Bechuanaland [Botswana] border, employed some 400 Native hunters in the years around 1890, and the rhinos were exterminated in a very considerable territory through his agency alone.
Apart from the sheer love of killing ingrained in most Europeans there were four attractions about the species to hasten its end; it was easy to approach and kill, the flesh was highly esteemed for its tastiness, the skin was prized for the making of whips and the horns were of value overseas. How it survived at all is difficult to tell.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqndwsy3pix4d4gm37b2waug/bafkreibrxnup5lnmuohbb2qsgypwemtqra5akadlyewlag4qetwvh7g2ri)
