Word: boro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poaching unravels the work of decades. Sanjoy Debroy, a career wildlife officer, says that when he revisits a tiger reserve in Assam that he directed for a dozen years, the demoralized staff members can't talk to him without weeping. Their tigers are hunted by members of the Boro tribe, who are staging a rebellion against the government. They trade tiger parts for guns and ammunition to carry on their insurgency. The park had an estimated 90 tigers, but Debroy has heard that between 30 and 40 were killed in just four months. "I thought I had done something...