"India has more animal species than any other region of equal area in the world."
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India’s fauna is the richest in the world: Robert Wolff, in the introduction to his book, “Animals of Asia”. Quoted in [This article is a major extract from the article "Sita Ram Goel, memories and ideas" by S. Talageri, written for the Sita Ram Goel Commemoration Volume, entitled "India's Only Communalist", edited by Koenraad Elst, published in 2005.
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