"I am shocked and distressed by the callous exploitation by unscrupulous poachers of the natural disaster of floods and of helpless animals fleeing to find safe shelter, " she said.
An alternative would be to make natural-disaster insurance (covering floods, earthquakes, avalanches and so on) obligatory, with premiums more closely reflecting the risk.
Hit by floods and droughts, this year's sugar crop was a disaster.
The company was fast to post information on its website about the floods, and communicated to investors about the size and scale of the disaster.
Others, such as Wipro Cares, match contributions from employees and provide disaster relief, lending a hand after the earthquake in Gujarat or the floods in Orissa, for instance.
The floods in the state have forced two million to flee their homes and killed 18 people, disaster officials say.
President Barack Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York state after "super-storm" Sandy triggered devastating floods and cuts power to millions on the US east coast.
He will also win points this week for visiting the victims of the Queensland floods, after his stop in New Zealand to meet residents hit by the Pike River Mine disaster and the Christchurch earthquake.
The prime minister, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, made the mistake of suggesting early in July (before the full scale of the disaster was known) that there would be no state aid for victims: the floods, he said severely, should be a lesson to the millions of Poles who are not privately insured.
It was recommended that school safety plan should be firmly adopted as an important disaster risk reduction measure in order to keep the children and community safe in case of floods, earthquake, tsunami and other natural disasters.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday said that most of those hit by the latest floods flooding are in Sindh province - in the southern part of the country - where 2.8 million have been affected.
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Congress approved the most recent disaster-bond program, which would likely serve as a blueprint for Sandy bonds, after the floods that devastated the Midwest in 2008.
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