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Wildlife Crime:
A guide to the use of forensic and specialist techniques in the investigation of wildlife crime
March 2005
Wildlife Crime:
A guide to the use of forensic and specialist techniques in the investigation of wildlife crime
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Nobel House 17 Smith Square London SW1P 3JR Telephone 020 7238 6000 Website: www.defra.gov.uk © Crown copyright 2005 Copyright in the typographical arrangement and design rests with the Crown. This publication (excluding the logo) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright with the title and source of the publication specified. Further copies of this publication are available from: PAW Secretariat Defra Zone 1/14 Temple Quay House 2 The Square Temple Quay Bristol BS1 6EB Tel: 0117 372 8551 Email: paw.secretariat@defra.gov.uk Published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Printed in the UK, March 2005, on recycled material containing 80% post-consumer waste and 20% totally chlorine free virgin pulp. PB 10582
Foreword
Dear Colleague The use of forensic and specialist techniques in the investigation of wildlife crime has increased dramatically during the last ten years, and has often played a critical role in securing convictions in a wide range of offences. This book, the latest in the “Wildlife Crime” series published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on behalf of the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime (PAW), pulls together details of a range of cases where such techniques have been used. PAW encourages and promotes the use of a whole range of standard and non-standard techniques – this publication provides a central reference source and a host of practical advice and will, we believe, further encourage wildlife enforcers to consider using...