In addition, there are 22 specialist prosecutors in environmental and wildlife crime who deal specifically with such issues, and who are available to mark the decision-making process in Scotland and to provide advice to specialist officers.Furthermore, Tom Dysart, the area procurator fiscal for Dumfries and Galloway, has recently taken up the chair of a new wildlife and habitats crime forum, which includes in its membership the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department, the police, the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and RSPB Scotland, which all have the intention of ensuring that, as far as possible, wildlife crime is detected and dealt with, and that evidence is gathered in the most effective way possible.Wildlife crime is unlike many...