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<p>Offences of poaching are usually charged under one of the following:</p><ul><li>Section
1 of the Night Poaching Act 1828,</li><li>section 30 of the Game Act 1831 or</li><li>section
2 of the Poaching Prevention Act 1862.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There is no requirement
to specify in an offence which type of animal the defendant was seeking to take or
had taken, and in many cases it is not specified.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the CPS
is not able to keep any records of which species are involved in its prosecutions
for poaching.</p>
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