A man who killed and ate what may have been the last wild indochinese tiger in China has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail, local media reports.  Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, encountered the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature reserve near China’s border with Laos.  He claimed to have killed it in self-defense. The only known wild indochinese tiger in China, photographed in 2007 at the same reserve, has not been seen since Kang’s meal, the Yunnan-based newspaper Life News reported earlier this month.  Four villagers who helped Kang dismember the tiger and ate its meat were also sentenced to three to four years in jail for “covering up and concealing criminal gains”, the report said.

I tried to tell you that the whole Chinese dog delicacy thing was way off the mark.

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