Dangerous Wild Animals licences
Case reference EIR2025/00926
Received 29 October 2025
Published 22 November 2025
Request
I would like to find out:
1) How many dangerous wild animal licences are held in your area and which types of animals they are for.
2) How many licence applications you have received in the past two years and which breeds of animals these applications involved. Please indicate where the same person has made multiple applications for different animals.
3) Which of these applications were accepted, rejected or are still under consideration.
4) How many dangerous wild animals you have discovered being kept illegally in the past two years without a licence and which breeds of animals each of these cases involved.
5) Whether the animals identified in 4) were seized or not.
Response
1) How many dangerous wild animal licences are held in your area and which types of animals they are for - NIL
2) How many licence applications you have received in the past two years and which breeds of animals these applications involved. Please indicate where the same person has made multiple applications for different animals. - NIL
3) Which of these applications were accepted, rejected or are still under consideration – N/A
4) How many dangerous wild animals you have discovered being kept illegally in the past two years without a licence and which breeds of animals each of these cases involved. – One serval cat.
5) Whether the animals identified in 4) were seized or not. – Yes they were seized.
Documents
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