Officers from Surrey Police, the Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit and the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) took part in a joint operation on 31/07/2018 when they visited Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park Racecourse.  The aim of the operation was to ensure that any traders dealing in endangered species and their derivatives were […]

Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport have seized 19 eggs containing rare and endangered bird species, two of which had already hatched. The detection was made on 26 June when officers stopped a man who had arrived on a flight from South Africa.  When the man was questioned and searched, 19 bird eggs were found […]

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 […]

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 […]