05 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“Wildlife crime app launched An app has been launched that will enable people to record and report suspected cases of wildlife crime directly to Police Scotland via their iPhone. The app is the brainchild of former Wildlife Crime Education Officer, Andy Turner who was looking for a way to improve awareness, detection and reporting of […]

 05 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“WASHINGTON — The United States Fish and Wildlife Service will destroy six tons of illegal African elephant ivory next week that it has been stockpiling since the ’80s, officials said on Tuesday. Blaming increased demand for a devastating rise in poaching, largely by organized crime syndicates, members of a task force created by President Obama […]

 04 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“Suffolk police were alerted at 8.40am on Thursday by a report that a group of men were hare coursing in a field between the A143 and the road to Barningham. A 20-year-old and 53-year-old, both of Sittingbourne, Kent, a 19-year-old from Gravesend, Kent, and an 18-year-old from Reigate, Surrey, were taken to Bury St Edmunds […]

 04 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“The Angling Trust and CEFAS today announced trials to find ways of reducing the impact of signal crayfish on English water bodies. CEFAS (the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science) and the Angling Trust have joined forces to try and find the most effective way of reducing signal crayfish numbers and their impacts on […]

 04 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“Devon is the worst location in the UK for stag and deer poaching, according to official figures. In response, the police have today begun a specially targeted anti-poaching operation. Called Project Trespass, it follows a recent discovery of eleven stag heads in a North Devon lay-by. Police believe organised gangs are behind the increase in […]

 02 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“Five different external signs have been unveiled, warning potential criminals ‘Beware this is a Farmwatch Area’. Force Deputy Director for Wildlife Crime, Sergeant Dave Jenkins said: “Farmwatch is going from strength to strength. Since the resurrection of Farmwatch in 2006, results to date for the Force and County are significant. With these signs being created, […]

 01 Nov 2013   Posted by NWCU2

“The British government has announced that to help in the fight against the poachers it is to send one of the most respected and feared fighting forces in the world – The British Army Paratrooper – to work with wildlife officers in Kenya. The deployment  will take place later this month and the paras will be […]

 31 Oct 2013   Posted by NWCU2

” A father and son have been fined after pleading guilty to blocking badger setts on their farm and piping car exhaust fumes into the soil to gas to death the animals inside. David Bown, 67, of Batcombe, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, and his son, Philip Bown, 38, of Henley Grove, Bruton, Somerset, were fined £1,370 each […]