Suspended sentence for seafood salesman who smuggled £53m worth of live eels out of UK
Somerset campsite owner jailed after he deliberately shot dead an otter trapped in a fishing net
Seafood salesman convicted of eelegally smuggling £53million worth of European eels through the UK
Siamese crocodile skulls found in raids by Kent police
Avon & Somerset appoint new Wildlife Crime Officer
Cheltenham antiques dealer sentenced for trading illegally in elephant tusks and walrus ivory
Maidstone men jailed after deer stabbed repeatedly in the throat and animal cruelty
Welsh man handed suspended jail term after interfering with badger sett
Suspected hare courser causes high-speed police chase in Cambridgeshire
Dorset wildlife crime officer recognised in New Year Honours list
Forensic science techniques used in battle against wildlife crime across Scotland
Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the work of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
Walsall owl breeder told his good character saved him from prison sentence
Pinpointing rural & wildlife crime with what3words
Illegal trade in endangered species - trial date set in Lancashire
Walsall Owl 'breeder' pleads guilty to the illegal possession and sale of Barn Owls
Cardiff man convicted for trading in endangered species
24 Apr 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Dwaine Tavernor 34 yrs of Knotton Road, Sheffield has pleaded guilty possessing a wild Tawny owl at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 8th March 2017. Police visited Tavernor’s home on 4th September 2016 where they found a Tawny owl which was wearing a leg ring indicating that it was bird that had been lawfully bred in […]
Read more → 03 Apr 2017
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Wild birds are nesting and the national campaign to protect them is underway. Egg thieves will go to any lengths to raid the nests of rare species but Operation EASTER is determined to stop them in their tracks. Operation EASTER was developed in Scotland 20 years ago. The operation is now facilitated by the National […]
Read more → 23 Mar 2017
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Dwaine Tavernor 34 yrs of Knotton Road, Sheffield has pleaded guilty to possessing a wild Tawny owl at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 8th March 2017. Police visited Tavernor’s home on 4th September 2016 where they found a Tawny owl which was wearing a leg ring indicating that it was bird that had been lawfully bred […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2017
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A man has been convicted for killing a duck in Richmond upon Thames. Robert Muir, 49, (03.04.1967) of Sandycombe Road, Richmond upon Thames, was found guilty of one count of killing a wild Mallard duck contrary to S1(1)(a) Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 30 January. He will be sentenced […]
Read more → 09 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
This fur coat was seized after it was found to be a real, illegal wildcat pelt. The coat is made from the pelt of a leopardus Geoffroyi – or Geoffroy’s Cat – which is native to South America. It has the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). […]
Read more → 30 Jan 2017
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Alan Rennie and Barry Shaw, aged 31 and 26 respectively and both from Edinburgh, pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 25th January 2017 to two charges under Section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The Court heard that on 26th April 2016 at an address near Edinburgh Park, Shaw alighted from a […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2017
Posted by NWCU4
Three men have been sentenced (Wednesday 18 January) in connection with hare coursing crimes in the Lothians and Scottish Borders. The men pled guilty to a total of six charges, which took place between December 2015 and February 2016, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 19 December 2016. Niall Purves, now 36, of Edinburgh was convicted of […]
Read more → 18 Jan 2017
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A ‘prolific’ trader in illegal animal specimens who sold pickled lizards and monkey heads on eBay has been jailed following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Daniel Stocks, who ran a legitimate website selling artificial shrunken heads, used eBay to sell taxidermy specimens under the brand name Killer Curios UK. The 42-year-old, from […]
Read more → 22 Dec 2016
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William Adams aged 64 years of Great Orton, Cumbria has pleaded guilty to uprooting and trading wild plant bulbs. Since 2014 residents of Dalston Village, Cumbria notice large numbers of wild plants were going missing from local woodland. On several occasions witnesses saw a man fitting Adams’s description digging in the area, some witness actually […]
Read more → 07 Nov 2016
Posted by NWCU5 
The illegal persecution of Badgers is a UK wildlife crime priority, due to the sheer volume of crime against badgers. The Badger Trust as part of the UK Strategic response to badger crime across the UK is supporting and leading a proactive Twitter week to highlight the continued plight of the badger against illegal persecution […]
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