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What is a Wildlife Crime? 

Warwickshire Wildlife Watchers.
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In general, wildlife crime is any action which contravenes current legislation governing the protection of the UK’s wild animals and plants and includes:

  • Hare Coursing
  • Deer poaching
  • Fish poaching
  • Badger persecution – including baiting, snaring, shooting, and disturbance of setts
  • Bat persecution
  • Egg theft/collection
  • Bird of Prey persecution – through poisoning, trapping, shooting, disturbance of nest and/or theft of chicks
  • The trade in ivory, tortoises, rhino horn and other protected species covered by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) including caviar, Traditional Chinese Medicines, and orchids)
  • Non registration of certain birds and animals that require licensing through DEFRA/Animal Health if kept in captivity or sold
  • Cruelty to wildlife
  • Theft or disturbance of wild animals, plants or their habitat.
  • Introduction of invasive species, such as the dumping of unwanted non-native species, plants or animals, into the environment.