Last Tiger in China eaten by villager

[Richard Hakluyt]

From the Telegraph :


"China's last tiger is eaten
The last wild Indochinese tiger in China has been killed and eaten by a villager.


By by Our Foreign Staff
Published: 9:33AM GMT 22 Dec 2009

The man was sentenced to 12 years in jail, local media reported. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, met 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-defence.

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.

The paper quoted the provincial Forestry Bureau as saying there was no evidence the tiger was the last one in China.

A local court sentenced Kang to 10 years for killing a rare animal plus two years for illegal possession of firearms, the local web portal Yunnan.cn reported. Prosecutors said Kang did not need a gun to gather clams.

Four villagers who helped Kang dismember the tiger and ate its meat were also sentenced from three to four years for "covering up and concealing criminal gains", the report said.

The Indochinese tiger is on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 1,000 left in the forests of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6864072/Chinas-last-tiger-is-eaten.html

[jimmy olsen]

How sad. 

[sbr]

Would that be ironic?

[Monoriu]

Dumbass.  He probably would have made a fortune if he reported his findings.  There was a peasant who figured this out, but he couldn't find a live tiger. So he produced a fake picture and instantly became a national hero.  He was later found out and jailed. 

[DisturbedPervert]

Prosecutors said Kang did not need a gun to gather clams.

They shut down a private tiger zoo here a few years ago, apparently they were shipping off some of them to China for consumption.

The 1000 figure sounds a bit low, Thailand and Malaysia have that many wild tigers left all on their own.

[CountDeMoney]

The Indochinese tiger is on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 1,000 left in the forests of Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

Can't save something from extinction that is worth more dead than alive.

I hate yellow people.  One day, we'll push them to the brink of extinction, and I'll be laughing as they tumble over it.

[Josquius]

Oh irony.