On 4th April 2019, Matthew REYNOLDS, 29, of Gloucester appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to charges contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 relating to the sale of an African Grey Parrot.  Two further charges under the same legislation were not proceeded with. REYNOLDS was given a 6 month curfew […]

WILDLIFE experts are celebrating an ‘egg-cellent’ rescue operation after successfully rearing 17 rare birds of prey seized from an international egg smuggler. Three of the birds saved at the International Centre for Birds of Prey (ICBP) in Newent are ‘endangered’ Cape vultures, and delighted staff now hope to be able to breed from them to […]

Stephanie Scolaro admitted smuggling fashion accessories made from endangered species’ skin. Scolaro, 26, was handed a 160-hour community order to be carried out over the next two years after she pleaded guilty to two counts of importing goods with the intent to evade a prohibition. She was also charged with two counts of keeping for sale […]

A man who tried to smuggle 19 rare and endangered bird eggs into the UK strapped to his body was jailed for three years and one month on 10 January 2019. The smuggling attempt was uncovered by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport on 26 June 2018 when officers stopped Jeffrey Lendrum after he arrived on a […]

Abbas Allawi, 52, of Watford, Hertfordshire was sentenced to 14 months in prison, for offences relating to the illegal keeping and selling of parts of endangered species. On Monday, 19 October 2016, a search warrant was executed at Allawi’s home address in Hertfordshire, by officers from the Met’s Wildlife Crime Unit, the Dog Unit and supporting […]

WARNING:  This article contains images which some readers may find disturbing. On Friday 12th October 2018, Mary Holliday Lamar, 51 years, of Ashover Road, Old Tupton, Derbyshire pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Magistrates Court to possessing a wild Peregrine falcon and keeping an unregistered Schedule 4 bird. Lamar, who is a US national now living in […]

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 […]