{"id":521048,"date":"2026-04-09T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521048\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:04:08","slug":"police-warn-over-illegal-wildlife-trade-in-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521048\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn over illegal wildlife trade in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flint has also dealt with cases involving parts of dead animals being offered for sale without the required paperwork, including the saw-like snout or rostrum of a sawfish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as you advertise an endangered species for sale you commit the offence,&#8221; he warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also has boxes of ivory from the case of a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lincolnshire-50088960\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Spalding man who was jailed for illegal ivory trading<\/a> and a tiger skin rug, which was handed over to officers after an auction house contacted police to check if they were allowed to sell it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be able sell this they would need either an Article 10 certificate, which they didn&#8217;t have, or proof it was taxidermied pre 1947.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tiger is now used by police for education purposes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flint has also dealt with cases involving parts of dead animals being offered for sale without the required&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}