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
01 Aug 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “GAMEKEEPERS and ghillies are teaming up with wildlife crime officers in a bid to halt the theft of freshwater pearl mussels in Scotland. The illegal fishing of these bi-valve mussels, Margaritifera margaretifera, is threatening the species. They are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and are often found on the bed of salmon rivers […]
Read more → 30 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 
A Police investigation is being conducted into the disturbing circumstances surrounding the discovery of what appeared to be the mutilated body of a Dartmoor foal on Tuesday 23rd July in the Yennadon Down area, Dousland near Yelverton, Devon. Police are appealing for anyone who was in the area during the night of 22nd and 23rd […]
Read more → 27 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“Earlier this month, we saw the first ever ivory trading conviction in New Zealand with 58 year old Jiezhen Jiang being charged under the Trade in Endangered Species Act and receiving a fine of 12,000 New Zealand dollars on the 10th of July. Tragically tens of thousands of elephants are being massacred each year to […]
Read more → 26 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “A man who shot a seagull as residents of a Fife village looked on in horror was fined £350 at Cupar Sheriff Court. Ryan Boyter, 22, of Bankton Park, Kingskettle, pleaded guilty to intentionally or recklessly injuring the bird with an air rifle, a charge brought under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The offence […]
Read more → 25 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU1 
“Two buzzards found dead near Chittlehampton were poisoned, police have revealed. Police are investigating the poisoning after receiving the results of forensic tests. The birds were found dead in April and subsequent forensic testing has confirmed they were poisoned. And police officers have now issued an appeal to the public for information…” Read the […]
Read more → 24 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “The former US defence attaché in Nairobi has been convicted of smuggling thousands of pounds worth of ivory, just hours after President Obama pledged to fight a crisis in illegal wildlife trafficking. David McNevin was arrested with 21 pieces of ornately carved elephant tusks as he boarded a flight to the Netherlands, from Nairobi’s Jomo […]
Read more → 23 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Czech authorities seized 24 white rhino horns and charged 16 suspected members of an international ring smuggling the prized material to Asia, the customs department said on Tuesday. The horns, believed in parts of Asia to heal illnesses including cancer and sold as an aphrodisiac, were worth $5 million, customs and police officials said. Demand […]
Read more → 22 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“The public are being urged to play a part in protecting one of Scotland’s rarest birds of prey, the hen harrier. The species is illegally persecuted and Scottish Natural Heritage wants anyone who is out and about in the countryside to report sightings of the birds.” Source: BBC online To see video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23404407
Read more → 22 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
LYON, France – An INTERPOL-led operation targeting criminal organizations behind the illegal trafficking of ivory in West and Central Africa has resulted in some 66 arrests and the seizure of nearly 4,000 ivory products and 50 elephant tusks, in addition to military grade weapons and cash. As part INTERPOL’s Project Wisdom, and supported by the […]
Read more → 22 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“Reports of a dolphin being hit by a boat and killed off Cornwall are being investigated by police. Conservationists claim a pod of bottlenose dolphins was “harassed and disturbed” by about 25 small boats in the Camel Estuary, in north Cornwall, on Saturday. The dolphins were in the estuary for several hours and a carcass […]
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