This is ridiculously sad.

(WARNING: Link contains pictures of the slaughtered tiger, but also links to other news articles with hope for tigers, too.)

Villagers thought they killed a supernatural shape-shifter. It was an endangered Sumatran tiger. - The Washington Post

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I'd learned about garbage exportation before. China is not the only world garbage importer... but it's about to stop being one. All to the good, I say. People need to deal with their own trash!

From BBC World Service: Why China Doesn't Want Your Waste Anymore. (Sorry, there's no text to copy; it's a video.)