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Operation EASTER launches for the 28th year
Bat Conservation Trust launch Halloween video to celebrate bats 🦇
Operation Badger re-launch for National Badger Day!
Craig Fellowes awarded MBE for services to wildlife
Operation EASTER ~ 27 years of stopping egg thieves
Man who abseiled down cliff to take peregrine falcon eggs jailed
Newport company fined for the demolition of Bat Roost
Cheshire man sentenced after admitting animal cruelty offences
2,114 seizures of endangered animals and timber in major international law enforcement operation
Natural England prosecutes developer for breaching Bat Mitigation Licence
Vale of Glamorgan man prosecuted for destroying valuable wildlife habitat
Wildlife detectives take part in new Forensics Training programme
PSNI investigate death of two white-tailed eagles
PSNI launch Operation SUBRISION to deter and detect rural and wildlife crime
Lewisham man convicted for illegally exporting ivory
Operation EASTER launched for 2023 - stopping egg thieves and egg collectors
19 Oct 2020
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The Royal Society for the protection of birds has condemned the illegal shooting of a buzzard at a reserve in Rochester on 10th October 2020. The buzzard was in flight, on land adjoining the south-west boundary of the RSPB’s Northward Hill reserve, near High Halstow, when it was shot out of the sky. One onlooker, […]
Read more → 06 Oct 2020
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On #NationalBadgerDay, the Badger Persecution Priority Delivery Group have published the new edition of their newsletter! Badger Persecution PDG Newsletter ~ Issue 3 – Oct 2020 Badgers are, of course, our Animal of the Month – see here.
Read more → 28 Sep 2020
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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 → 17 Sep 2020
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A young male Hen Harrier named Fingal, has become the latest satellite tagged bird to disappear in Scotland. The young bird hatched from a nest in the Scottish Borders in summer 2019, and was fitted with a lightweight satellite tag as part of the EU Hen Harrier LIFE project which has allowed scientists to […]
Read more → 15 Sep 2020
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Dryad, a male hen harrier, hatched at a nest in the Forest of Bowland this summer. He was fitted with a lightweight satellite tag so that scientists could trace his movements once he fledged. But Dryad barely had time to spread his wings before his tag, which had been transmitting normally, stopped suddenly and unexpectedly […]
Read more → 08 Sep 2020
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Police have condemned the ‘despicable’ shooter who killed a rare peregrine falcon in the Cotswolds. The ‘iconic bird of prey’, a protected species, was found dead near Northleach on Aug 16th 2020 but details have only just been released. The bird is believed to have been blasted with a shotgun. The Gloucestershire Police rural crime […]
Read more → 29 Aug 2020
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NOTORIOUS Rathkeale Rover and rhino horn smuggler John Slattery clutches his belongings as he arrives back in Ireland after a US jail stint. He was identified as a member of the Rathkeale Rovers, a global rhino horn theft and smuggling mob, by investigators working on Operation Oakleaf. Slattery was deported after three months at the […]
Read more → 28 Aug 2020
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A man has plead guilty to training his four dogs to violently bait wild animals following an investigation by the Scottish SPCA. 23-year-old Martin Davidson was found in possession of videos showing his dogs attacking foxes and posing with injured and dead animals. Davidson of Abbotsford Road, Lochore plead guilty to training his dogs for animal […]
Read more → 24 Aug 2020
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A taxidermy dealer who illegally traded in critically endangered species has been sentenced at Preston Crown Court to a total of 56 weeks in custody. The sentence is the result of complex two-and-a-half-year investigation. In December 2017 the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and Lancashire Police launched a joint investigation into the dealings of Arron Halstead after […]
Read more → 21 Aug 2020
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THE RSPCA has revealed how cruel badger killers were only snared after one of them was arrested for a different crime. Releasing shocking images of the men for the first time, the animal welfare charity has condemned the barbaric cruelty as four men were handed suspended sentences for welfare against badgers and deer. Mobile footage […]
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