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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
14 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Three members of an east Belfast family have admitted animal cruelty offences described by the police and USPCA as among the most serious they have seen. Jeremiah Kirkwood, 43, and sons Chris, 23, and Wayne, 20, of Island Street, admitted keeping animals for fighting. They also pleaded guilty to having equipment in connection with animal […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“On 1 April 2013, during Operation CLAMP DOWN, targeting illegal angling during the coarse close season, Voluntary Bailiffs of the Voluntary Bailiff Service’s Angling Watch 3 were patrolling the River Thames at King’s Meadow, Reading, with Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officer Mick Cox. During this patrol, what appeared to be illegal set lines were found […]
Read more → 07 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement have seized 138 taxidermy bird mounts from a man in Connecticut. The birds, which are believed to be valued at $30,000 were being held in violation of US legislation – Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Endangered Species Act. The seizure came as a result of […]
Read more → 06 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “In a development that has conservationists abuzz, Chinese officials crushed 6.1 tons of confiscated elephant ivory earlier today in a ceremony in Guangzhou. The move comes two months after the U.S. pulverized its six-ton stockpile of ivory contraband to signal that it will not tolerate the illegal wildlife trade, and one month ahead of a […]
Read more → 02 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A police unit that investigates wildlife crime in London is under threat, with funding from a charity due to run dry next year. Scotland Yard’s Wildlife Crime Unit was saved from closure when the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) stepped in with a £100,000 annual grant. But the donation, which funded two […]
Read more → 30 Dec 2013
Posted by NWCU6 “A man has been arrested following reports a wild deer has been shot in the head with a crossbow. Police and RSPCA officers said it is possible the animal has been wounded and may still be alive. They have searched Plymbridge Woods on the outskirts of Plymouth in Devon after the incident was reported on […]
Read more → 27 Dec 2013
Posted by NWCU6 
“The United Nations General Assembly is honoring wild animals and plants, particularly endangered and protected species, by designating March 3 as World Wildlife Day. In a resolution adopted December 20, the 193-member General Assembly selected March 3 because that is the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of […]
Read more → 26 Dec 2013
Posted by NWCU6 
“The European Union Commission has pledged more than R170 million to assist in combating illegal trading in ivory. The fight against ivory trading will be taken more to the organised crime and rebel forces. Key states involved in the illegal ivory value chain have committed to urgent measures to halt the illegal trade in ivory. […]
Read more → 23 Dec 2013
Posted by NWCU6 
“The UK Government has vowed to clamp down on the soaring trade in illegal wildlife products such as rhino horn and elephant ivory, pledging £10m to fight a crime offering “low risk and high rewards”. Illicit trade in wildlife has exploded into a $19bn (£11.6bn) global criminal enterprise, driven by newly-rich Asian consumers who aspire to […]
Read more → 19 Dec 2013
Posted by NWCU1 
Police Scotland is carrying out enquiries after tests established that a Golden Eagle found dead in Angus earlier this month was poisoned. The bird was discovered in the Glen Lethnot area in Angus after suspicions were raised by satellite tracking equipment that indicated it had remained in the same place for a significant period of […]
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