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Man fined after 700 frozen and taxidermied animals found on Victorian property

22 October 2026 at 03:24

Antiques store owner, 74, pleads guilty to 13 charges after regulator uncovers hundreds of animals at his home and shop

The white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet. As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent.

They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally taxidermied and frozen that were seized from the property of a Victorian antiques store owner last year.

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© Photograph: Conservation Regulator Victoria

© Photograph: Conservation Regulator Victoria

© Photograph: Conservation Regulator Victoria

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