“If there are 500 tigers left in India, I'd be surprised. They are even skinning the tigers in Indian zoos.”

—  Maneka Gandhi

On poaching of tigers in India, as quoted in "Hunting down the hunter: A dying breed" http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hunting-down-the-hunter-a-dying-breed-473821.html, The Independent (12 April 2006)
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