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Wright, B.
Too Little Too Late - Can India's Tigers be Saved ?
2005  Cat News (42): 13-14

India's wildlife criminals are bold and ruthless. And why shouldn't they be? Nobody seems particularly interested in catching them. It is now over 11 years since the huge seizure in Delhi of 400 kg of tiger bones, eight tiger skins, and 59 leopard skins gave a clear signal that wildlife crime had come of age in India. Yet little was done - until, in the last few weeks, the elimination of tigers from Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve awakened the authorities to a problem that has been crucifying all of the country's tiger areas for years.

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