216 A Nurse for charges to be laid in respect of items used to commit an offence such as cars or maps of bird breeding sites While the obsession of offenders gives some clue to their behaviour, egg collecting is a peculiar activity that defies ready explanation In these times of environmental awareness it seems odd that a form of crime from which the offender derives no financial benefit should continue Case Study 2: Taxidermy and Trophy Collection While taxidermy and trophy hunting are arguably distinct activities; they share a common ‘interest’ in the collection of dead animal species and classification as hobby-related activities (Nurse 2013a, 2011) Neither taxidermy nor sport and trophy hunting are inherently unlawful, albeit they are regulated activities Yet research indicates that illegality and corruption are endemic in the sport and trophy hunting industries and, separate from the lawful killing of small numbers of animals carried out under permit and quota systems, a wider problem of the illegal killing of protected animals and collection or harvesting of their parts for trophies or animal products exists (see for example Bever 2015 and Crowley 2015 and discussions of the recent Cecil the Lion case) Trophy hunting thus contributes to other illegal trades and has implications beyond its immediate animal harm activities Trophy hunting in African countries also represents continued dominance by western societies over the developing world Although African hunting is not exclusively carried out by white male hunters, this group makes up a significant proportion of hunters in part because of the socio-economic considerations that are determining factors in hunting Kotler et al (2008) identified that the price fixed by hunting companies is determined by market rules and that while prices need to be adjusted to meet demand, the perceived value of the trophy is a significant factor in determining price Palazy et al (2012) identified that human attraction to rarity is a pricing factor, thus inevitably the rarer and more challenging species are more expensive to hunt and attract hunters from more affluent backgrounds willing and able to pay a ‘rarity’ premium Sport and trophy hunting inevitably attract those individuals disposed towards direct animal harm and for whom the notion of animal rights and species justice is, at best, secondary to their own interests (Nurse 2013a) The animal abuse associated with sport and trophy hunting consists of deliberately exercising power over an animal by consciously taking its life However, sport hunting, aimed at smaller species, perhaps lays more