2025-2028 NPCC Wildlife & Rural Crime Strategy
Yellow-legged Asian Hornet Week 1st - 7th September 2025
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
Monmouthshire company fined for damaging an important Great Crested Newt habitat
21 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
The Council of the City and County of Cardiff were reported to Natural Resources Wales for destroying a known habitat for Dormice, a European Protected Species at the Northern Meadows site in Whitchurch, Cardiff during 2021. The area was cleared to ground level and replanted with fruit trees. No European Protected Species (EPS) licence was […]
Read more → 19 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
Wild birds are nesting and the national campaign to protect them across the UK is underway. Egg thieves will go to any lengths to raid the nests of rare wild birds but Operation EASTER is determined to stop them in their tracks. Operation EASTER was developed in Scotland 25 years ago. The operation is now […]
Read more → 14 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
In Nature Scot’s latest blog, they take a look at bird photography and the issues that people need to consider to ensure they stay within the law and don’t disturb wildlife.
Read more → 13 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
POLICE are investigating the “unexplained death” of a goshawk that was discovered in Powys. The bird of prey was found dead in the Brecon area on Sunday, April 10, 2022 said Dyfed Powys Police. “The bird has been recovered by the Rural Crime Team (RCT), who are investigating the unexplained death of a goshawk […]
Read more → 11 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
David Kerr, 74, was fined £740 for committing the offences when a building being demolished on an estate in Dunblane. Kerr admitted the offences at Stirling Sheriff Court on Monday 11th April 2022 and was fined £740. The incident happened on 12 June, 2020, when a building was being demolished on the Glassingall estate. Wildlife […]
Read more → 05 Apr 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
The birds of prey were found in Renfrewshire in April 2022 just a week apart and authorities are investigating after suspicions were raised. The SSPCA said they suspect that two birds of prey have been shot dead in the space of a week. A firearm was confirmed as being used in one of the Sparrowhawk’s […]
Read more → 15 Mar 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
A wild peregrine falcon found badly injured after being illegally trapped and shot has been put down. Suffolk Police said the bird of prey was discovered by a member of the public in a field in Cratfield on 15 March and taken to the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary at Stonham Barns. It said the injuries, including […]
Read more → 08 Mar 2022
Posted by NWCU4
Natural Resources Wales successfully prosecuted two developers from the Merthyr Tydfil area this week (8th March 2022). The Defendants pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates Court to damaging a roost / resting place of Bats when they converted the Old Drill Hall, Pontmorlais West in Merthyr Tydfil. However, in doing so they failed to obtain the […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2022
Posted by NWCU4 
A dad has been found guilty of animal cruelty offences after posting on social media about taking his son out badger baiting to celebrate his release from prison. Grant Leigh Senior, 52, from Hyde, was convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to a terrier, alongside failing to properly look after six other dogs. His son Grant […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2022
Posted by NWCU1 
Commissioned by the Home Office, RUSI’s report finds that despite the UK’s leading international role as an advocate against illegal wildlife trade, it has failed to treat the crime as a domestic priority The UK is a leading international advocate of the need to ‘follow the money’ generated by the illegal wildlife trade (IWT). In […]
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