A man currently serving a jail sentence for offering to sell parts of endangered species has been ordered to pay back £100,642 within six months or face another three-year jail sentence. Allawi Abbas, 53, (02/02/1965) of Gisburne Way, Hertfordshire, was sentenced to 14 months in jail in November for keeping/offering for sale rhinoceros horns, elephant […]

UK Border Force officers sort through seized ivory items. A month-long crackdown during May 2018, codenamed ‘Operation Thunderstorm’, tackled the illegal trade in flora and fauna, involved 92 countries and was a concerted strike against wildlife traffickers and their £17billion-a-year illicit enterprises. Around the world suspects were arrested and seizures of animals, ivory and bushmeat were […]

A Border’s man has been fined £1,000 at Jedburgh Sheriff Court today (Thursday 19th April 2018), for trading in parts of internationally protected species.  The court also  issued a forfeiture order for a mounted tiger head. Richard Wales ran an on-line business under the name “theexplorersstudy” buying and selling antiquity products containing animal derivatives from […]

41 year old Ngie Chung-Law of India House, Derby appeared at Derby Magistrates Court on 19th March 2018 charged with a total of 15 offences relating to the illegal trade and export of elephant ivory.   The case is the result of a joint investigation involving the National Wildlife Crime Unit, Derbyshire Police and UK Border […]

An Inverness man was fined £750 for keeping parts of protected species for sale at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday 19th February 2018.  Gordon Taylor ran an on-line business under the name “Wild Wizard Crafts” selling products for the shaman and pagan market from an address in Leyton Drive, Inverness.  On 4 November 2015, the […]

Wildlife crime officers from Lancashire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit have executed search warrants issued under the provisions of the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations, at two addresses in the Burnley area (17/01/2018). Officers seized a wide range of specimens including Rhino heads and horns, Elephant tusks, Sperm whale teeth and […]

Officers from Avon and Somerset Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit investigating the illegal trade in endangered species have executed a search warrant in the Yate area (19/12/2017).  The warrant related to the trade in taxidermy specimens of protected species.  A 41 years old man has been interviewed and later released.  A file is […]

A 40-year-old Irish man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in the United States for his role in smuggling rhinoceros horn. Michael Hegarty, part of international criminal gang the Rathkeale Rovers, pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced in a federal court in Miami. Judge Donald Middlebrooks sentenced Hegarty to 18 months […]

A man has been jailed for attempting to sell elephant tusks and rhino horns. Abbas Allawi, 52, (02/02/1965) of Gisburne Way, Hertfordshire was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Thursday, 9 November to 14 months’ imprisonment for offences relating to the illegal purchase, keeping for sale and selling parts of endangered species. On Monday, 19 […]