Two deer have been brutally slaughtered and butchered at a park. The animals were found by Friends of Panshanger Park volunteers who had gathered at the site on Saturday morning to organise the regular walk around the area. The carcasses had been removed, with just the bloody skeletons and internal organs left behind. The deer […]

Two Preston men have been arrested in connection with illegal poaching in Lancashire. A 46 year old and 50 year old man have been bailed until January after Lancashire Police arrested them, and a 24 year old man from Carnforth, on suspicion of illegally hunting deer. Wildlife officers have dealt with a number of incidents […]

The world’s largest and most prestigious botanical garden, Kew receives 2 million visitors each year………. Shortly after two o’clock on the afternoon of Thursday, January 9, Nick Johnson, the 43-year-old manager of the conservatory …….. checked on the rarest, and most endangered, plant in the glasshouse, the Nymphaea thermarum, which is the smallest water lily […]

Wildlife Crime Officers from Lancashire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit investigating the illegal trade in endangered species executed a search warrant at an address in the Burnley area on 23/10/2014.   Officers seized items including four Leopard skins, a Jaguar skull, a Sperm whale tooth and two stuffed Snowy owls, which are all included on […]

“The case of the ‘Putin’s tiger’, Kuzya, has brought the dangers of poaching back into the spotlight. Russian president Vladimir Putin released the 19-month-old Siberian tiger in a remote forest in May this year. Five months later, one week ago, Kuzya swam across the frigid waters of the Amur river into China.  The event set […]