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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
17 Feb 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Police are urging visitors to North Yorkshire’s countryside to get involved with Operation Owl – a new initiative to reduce the number of illegal attacks on birds of prey in the county. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is an offence to intentionally kill, injure or take wild birds. Nevertheless birds of prey (raptors) […]
Read more → 16 Feb 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
The disappearance of a golden eagle is [thought to be] “highly suspicious”. It was one of a number of birds tagged last summer. The tag lost signal on 21 January on the outskirts of Edinburgh before it showed up offshore and then disappeared. The golden eagle – named Fred – hatched at a nest in the […]
Read more → 05 Feb 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
An experienced huntsman has been jailed after being caught badger-baiting on remote farmland in North Wales. RSPCA inspectors and police also found two foxes in a cage next to a pack of dogs on the farm, a meeting place for the Dwyryd Hunt, and believe they were going to be released for dogs to […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
On Tuesday 23rd January 2017 Knightspur Homes, a real estate company based in London, pleaded guilty at Sevenoaks Magistrates Court to three offences relating to the destruction of a bat roost contrary to the Conservation of Habitats and Species regulations 2010. In 2015 an ecology survey was commissioned at Eden Hall Estate, Edenbridge, Kent […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A woman who kept more than 100 items made from elephant ivory and tried to sell them online has been sentenced. Janet Winstanley, 60, (29.04.57) of Acklam Road, W10, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 22 January to offences relating to the illegal export of ivory. She was sentenced on the same day […]
Read more → 18 Jan 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Wildlife crime officers from Lancashire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit have executed search warrants issued under the provisions of the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations, at two addresses in the Burnley area (17/01/2018). Officers seized a wide range of specimens including Rhino heads and horns, Elephant tusks, Sperm whale teeth and […]
Read more → 09 Jan 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
On 11 December 2017, Keith Riddoch was fined £500 at Inverness Sheriff Court for recklessly shooting a buzzard contrary to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 Section 1(1)(a). During an organised pheasant shoot at Ralia Estate, Newtonmore, in November 2016, the 65 year old from Aberdeen fired the first shot of the day injuring the […]
Read more → 20 Dec 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Officers from Avon and Somerset Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit investigating the illegal trade in endangered species have executed a search warrant in the Yate area (19/12/2017). The warrant related to the trade in taxidermy specimens of protected species. A 41 years old man has been interviewed and later released. A file is […]
Read more → 18 Dec 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
New technology will help crack down on crimes against raptors in England and Wales. Raptor persecution maps for England and Wales have been published to enable the police to clearly see where the highest incidents are taking place and focus enforcement efforts in the areas that need it most. The maps present the number of shootings, […]
Read more → 11 Dec 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
The first Badger Persecution Report for Northern Ireland, covering 2015, has been released. Click here [Badger Persecution Report Northern Ireland 2015] for the 2015 report into Badger Persecution Northern Ireland.
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