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The Thin Green Line
Wildlife Crime Investigation in Britain and Ireland
 
by
Alan Stewart
 
(available September 2009)
 
From the author of the bestselling Wildlife Detective, a unique book which presents a wide-ranging survey of the scale of wildlife crime in Great Britain and Ireland today – and how the forces of law and order attempt to combat it.
 
With the help of his police colleagues, Alan Stewart, the foremost wildlife detective in these islands, presents fascinating case studies from all corners of Britain and Ireland, and also recounts how the effects of international crime manifests itself on these shores; crimes against wildlife of all kinds, from water voles to elephants, from rare bulbs to Indian tigers.
 
Told with his customary wit and in his own earthy style, this book will appeal across the spectrum of police, prosecutors, the animal cruelty lobby, conservationists and lovers of wildlife.

Contents include:


• Grampian: skiing with dolphins calls for a police investigation


• London: the illegal trade in endangered species on the streets of London


• East Anglia: a wealthy landowner and a retired magistrate involved in egg collecting – surely some
mistake?


• South Wales: A sturgeon offered for sale; call in the police or perhaps Her Majesty the Queen?


• Fife: A major dog fighting ring is broken in a quiet Scottish backwater


• Ireland: incredible cruelty to greyhounds at the end of their racing careers


• Leicestershire: County Council in the dock for destruction of a bat roost


• Lincolnshire: the profit – and the unsavoury characters – involved in the illegal tortoise trade


• South Wales: theft of fossilised dinosaur feet – the oldest wildlife crime on record?


• Strathclyde: a remarkable rescue of a badger from death by slurry 

 

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