<p>Antiques store owner, 74, pleads guilty to 13 charges after regulator uncovers hundreds of animals at his home and shop</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/22/man-fined-after-700-frozen-and-taxidermied-animals-found-on-victorian-property-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
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Man fined after 700 frozen and taxidermied animals found on Victorian property
<p>Antiques store owner, 74, pleads guilty to 13 charges after regulator uncovers hundreds of animals at his home and shop</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/22/man-fined-after-700-frozen-and-taxidermied-animals-found-on-victorian-property-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>