Wildlife: Smuggling

(asked on 28th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of illegal animal wildlife products have been made at UK ports of entry in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 9th November 2015

The table below shows the number of seizures under CITES by Border Force (Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species).


Year

Number of seizures under CITES

2011

422

2012

665

2013*

569

2014*

512

2015 (Jan to June 2015)*

490


*These figures are published, and can be found on the GOV UK website.

The figures quoted above are management information, which are subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.


Link to website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-august-2015

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