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Reuters<\/a><\/strong> reports that the farmer behind the Southern China Tiger<\/a> photo scandal has been put in jail:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The photos by\u00a0Zhou\u00a0Zhenglong, a 54-year-old farmer from mountainous Zhenping county in northern Shaanxi province, raised hopes that the\u00a0South China tiger\u00a0might still exist in the region.<\/p>\n

Local officials used that to promote tourism and a wildlife reserve, and rewarded him with 20,000 yuan ($2,930) before the fraud was exposed by local media and Internet experts.<\/p>\n

Zhou was sentenced in 2008 to jail with a three-year reprieve, which normally means the convicted person remains at liberty.<\/p>\n

But he was imprisoned for two years starting last weekend after a court found he “had not cooperated with monitoring officials and had not reported his thinking and activity,” the Beijing Morning Post said on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters reports that the farmer behind the Southern China Tiger photo scandal has been put in jail: The photos by\u00a0Zhou\u00a0Zhenglong, a 54-year-old farmer from mountainous Zhenping county in northern Shaanxi province, raised hopes that the\u00a0South China tiger\u00a0might still exist in the region. 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