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2025-2028 NPCC Wildlife & Rural Crime Strategy
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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
29 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A gamekeeper has been cleared of trying to trap wild birds, after a judge ruled RSPB video evidence gained by trespassing could not be used in court. District Judge Kevin Grego, at Telford Magistrates’ Court, excluded the covert footage showing Neil Wainwright. Wainwright, of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, was cleared of three counts related to trapping […]
Read more → 26 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A company which sold jewellery made from animal claws has been fined over £2,000. The court heard that police were notified by Westminster Trading Standards that the jewellery was on sale at a concession of Annina Vogel Ltd in the Liberty department store in Regents Street. A Westminster Borough wildlife crime officer attended the location […]
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
An international law enforcement operation tackling the illegal trade in endangered species has seen more than 300 seizures of animals, plants and derivative products in the UK and hundreds more worldwide. In the six-week global operation Border Force and UK Police detected consignments at UK ports and airports including ivory and ivory products, 166 […]
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Joel Martin, 20 yrs, of Clayton Crescent, Waterthorpe, Sheffield appeared at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 16th June 2015 and pleaded guilty to possessing two wild tawny owls and possessing a trap capable of being used to take wild birds. A further charge of taking two owls from a nest in the Sheffield area was withdrawn. […]
Read more → 12 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A well known angler was fined £240 [plus £620 costs] yesterday [11/06/2015] after being found guilty at Macclesfield Magistrates Court. Myles Gibson had been illegally fishing at Tatton Park Mere without a permit. Source: BBC North West Tonight To watch the video from BBC North West (iplayer) ~ click here.
Read more → 11 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
On Thursday 11 June 2015, Operation LEVIATHAN was launched at West Mercia Police Headquarters – the biggest initiative ever to target illegal fishing and fish theft. LEVIATHAN, like the existing Operation TRAVERSE in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, is the second major multi-force, multi-agency crack down initiated by the Angling Trust – involving West Mercia (Herefordshire, Shropshire […]
Read more → 28 May 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
An experienced owl breeder from Norfolk has been fined for offences relating to the sale of owls. On 15th May 2015, Michael Geoffrey Horne 45 yrs, of Church Road, Tilney St Lawrence, pleaded guilty at Norfolk Crown Court to 3 offences contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997. In […]
Read more → 26 May 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
“A haul of taxidermy animals including a tiger’s head, monkey skulls, reptiles, and stuffed birds of prey have been seized from a house in Devon. The operation follows the seizure by Border Force of a chameleon preserved in formaldehyde at the Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre postal hub on 17 April. The reptile, which had been […]
Read more → 13 May 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
” Police are searching for 17 rare monkeys stolen from a zoo in central France. Thieves took seven golden lion tamarins and 10 silvery marmosets, which all belong to the Brazilian government, from the Beauval zoo on Saturday. “These are extremely rare, extremely fragile monkeys,” zoo director Rodolphe Delord said. Concern is mounting for the […]
Read more → 11 May 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who used dogs to illegally bait badgers and foxes has been jailed for 160 days after a court heard how the animals suffered horrific injuries. Three Patterdale terriers owned by Steve Alston, 49, had their noses and jaws ripped apart after being sent down badger setts and filmed as they fought with the […]
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