A Chinese court has jailed a farmer for 13 years for trading in state-protected swans and their meat, Xinhua news agency reported Friday.Zhang Yuelin, 48, from the northern province of Henan, had bought 38 dead swans and one kg of swan meat late last year, the agency said. He was also fined 50,000 yuan ($6,500).
"Zhang plucked the dead swans and hid them in the backyard of his house," it said, adding that he sold the bodies of the birds and received 3,000 yuan.
The report did not say whether Zhang had killed the birds.
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