Operation EASTER ~ 24 years of stopping egg thieves and egg collectors
Northumbria Police appeal for information as satellite tagged hen harrier goes missing
Poaching Priority Delivery Group looking for new chair
Essex Police: Hare coursing orders secured
A new national lead for the Badger Persecution Priority Delivery Group
PSNI probe after fears two peregrine falcons were poisoned in Belfast
NWCU support Sussex Police - endangered species seized
Canadian company ordered to pay $163,776 fine for illegally importing European eel meat
Two men released after suspected hare coursing in Wiltshire
Rural task force teams launched across Lancashire
Assessment launches to appraise UK wildlife and forest crime legislation and enforcement
Huddersfield man admits stealing 200 wild bird eggs
Police and NWCU find 80 alligator heads in West Midlands house
Police Scotland launch third phase of Year-Long Wildlife Crime Campaign focusing on Bat Crime
Hare coursers handed Criminal Behaviour Orders in Cambridgeshire
28 Sep 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Shocking messages on phone reveal group of hunters killed badgers, foxes and hare. Three men have been jailed after shocking WhatsApp messages revealed a string of offences against wildlife. Matthew McWilliam Junior (DoB: 27/11/1993) of Spitalfield Lane, New Romney, Kent, and Jethro Smith (01/09/1995) of Plantation Close, Hothfield near Ashford, Kent, appeared at Folkestone Magistrates […]
Read more → 21 Aug 2020
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Police are warning poachers to stay out of North Yorkshire, as the force ramps up a new anti-poaching operation. Poachers normally travel in groups of up to four people, with dogs, using 4×4 vehicles. They typically hunt brown hare or deer. In addition to being a wildlife crime, their illegal activity can cause extensive damage […]
Read more → 24 Jul 2020
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The buzzard as it was found. (Photo courtesy of RSPB) North Yorkshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after a dead buzzard was found on Live Moor close to the village of Swainby. The bird was discovered by a member of the public on 20 March 2020 and reported to the RSPB before […]
Read more → 27 May 2020
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Analysis shows buzzard killed by combination of four different pesticides North Yorkshire Police is urging pet owners to be vigilant after analysis of a dead buzzard found near Pateley Bridge showed the presence of four pesticides in its system which are believed to be the cause of death. In March 2020, a member of the […]
Read more → 09 Apr 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Police Scotland can confirm that a 64-year-old man has been charged with a number of wildlife crime offences in the Stewartry area of Dumfries and Galloway. Extensive investigations have been ongoing into the deaths of upwards of 20 birds of prey and other wild birds in the Springholm area near Castle Douglas between 2018 […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2020
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A seafood salesman has been convicted of smuggling an estimated 5.3 million critically endangered baby eels from Spain to East Asia via the UK over a two year period, in what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Gilbert Khoo, 67, from Parbury Rise, Chessington, was today found guilty […]
Read more → 08 Jan 2020
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PC Claire Dinsdale from the Dorset Rural Crime Team has been awarded a Queen’s Police Medal. NWCU join colleagues from across Dorset and the wider police community in congratulating Claire on receiving such an honour.
Read more → 21 Oct 2019
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On 15th October 2019, Michael TANG, 49, of Cardiff appeared at Cardiff Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to 18 charges contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 and six charges contrary to the Customs and Excise Act 1979 relating to the illegal import and purchase of a number of skulls […]
Read more → 18 Oct 2019
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A Spalding man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for trading in illegal ivory, including buying unworked sections of illegal elephant tusks. Slawomir Kazmierczak, 55, of Redthorne Close, Spalding previously pleaded guilty to nine charges relating to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997. The nine charges relate to offences between […]
Read more → 15 Oct 2019
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A man who admitted destroying a roost for a protected species of bat has been ordered by a court to pay more than £7,000. Iain Russell Turner, aged 50 and of The Street in Motcombe, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 11 October 2019 for an offence of damaging or destroying the […]
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