Villager who ate 'last' rare tiger jailed 12 years

When Kang Wannian, a villager in Yunnan province, was relishing the meat of a rare tiger he shot dead in February, he probably had no idea the dinner would land him in jail and leave his family bankrupt.

On Monday, a court in Mengla county, Yunnan, sentenced Kang, whose village is a stone's throw from a nature reserve, to 12 years behind bars for killing and poaching endangered wild animals, and illegal possession of firearms. The county court also fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600).

Kang was also ordered to compensate the country for killing and eating what was possibly its last Indo-Chinese tiger on record in the amount of 480,000 yuan.