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Nature
Missing Monsoon
Season 2
Episode 212
The film celebrates the resilience of nature under adverse conditions in the beautiful setting of Bharatpur National Park in northern India. It is a film record of and extraordinary year, 1979, when the annual monsoon rains failed to come on schedule, resulting in death and starvation for thousands of birds and animals who depend on the life giving monsoon rains for their survival.
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