A North Somerset falconer Andrew McManus-Dunkley has appeared before Western Super Mare Magistrates Court charged with offences relating to the illegal display and trade in birds of prey. McManus-Dunkley is the owner of Banwell Falconry based at Smallway, Congresbury near Bristol. McManus-Dunkley keeps a number of birds of prey for display to the public at […]

FINED FOR DESTROYING A BAT ROOST On Monday 1st July 2013 a Chorley Magistrates Court heard a case against a Mr David Michael Dalton, 33, of Chorley New Road, Lostock, Bolton. Dalton, who had been charged with destroying a bat roost. Following a guilty plea Mr Dalton was fined £540 with £100 costs and a […]

June 18 2013  A man from the Forest of Dean has been given a 40 weeks prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, after being convicted of a number of counts of fraud and theft in connection with the trade in rare and endangered birds.  Keith Beaven, 68 and from Staunton, was also ordered to abide […]

The UK’s contribution to a global Interpol operation targeting the illegal trade in birds has been hailed a success. Operation CAGE was the third operation coordinated by Interpol to target the growing trade in illegal wildlife. The operation saw police, customs and wildlife enforcement authorities in 32 countries carrying out thousands of checks at ports, […]

On 12th January 2012, Cyril McLachlan was fined £635 at Lanark Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing the banned pesticide Carbofuran. Following the recovery of a poisoned buzzard and bait, members of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, Strathclyde Police and Scottish Government Rural Payments & Inspections Directorate searched buildings and land around […]

On 5th January 2012, David Alexander Whitefield was sentenced to 100 hours of community service at Lanark Sheriff Court after being convicted of the unlawful poisoning of 4 buzzards with chloralose baits on a Lanarkshire Estate.