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
Two Lincolnshire men sentenced under new hare coursing legislation
09 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “The aim of the Poaching Priority Delivery Group – Scotland is to increase the level of awareness of poaching and hare coursing as serious wildlife crimes and to build better trust and relationships between the law enforcement agencies and local communities, leading to increased prevention activity, intelligence flows and enforcement success. The CLA is well […]
Read more → 08 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 
“Colin Burne, of Winters Park, Penrith, has today pleaded guilty to the intentional killing of buzzards on land managed by a private shooting syndicate in Whinfell Forest, near Penrith, Cumbria. The 64-year old gamekeeper attended Carlisle Magistrates Court today where he pleaded guilty to three charges. These related to the killing of two buzzards on […]
Read more → 05 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “The Scottish Gamekeepers Association has expelled four of the organisation’s members for wildlife offences, it was revealed today. The organisation, which represents all gamekeepers, stalkers, ghillies, wildlife managers and rangers in Scotland, has taken the ultimate sanction against the four unidentified members in recent weeks. And today Alex Hogg, the chairman of the SGA, called […]
Read more → 04 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Conservation groups fear plan could increase demand in markets such as Vietnam and enrich black-marketeers Environment minister Edna Molewa told reporters that South Africa, home to 73% of the world’s rhinos, would seek permission for the sale at the next major meeting of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, in 2016. “South […]
Read more → 04 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) has said its members have the knowledge to boost efforts to conserve golden eagles. The association acknowledged persecution was an issue and it had recently expelled four members for wildlife offences. But it said conservation work by many grouse managers was being “overlooked”. It said a survey of keeper-managed moors […]
Read more → 03 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU1 
A North Somerset falconer Andrew McManus-Dunkley has appeared before Western Super Mare Magistrates Court charged with offences relating to the illegal display and trade in birds of prey. McManus-Dunkley is the owner of Banwell Falconry based at Smallway, Congresbury near Bristol. McManus-Dunkley keeps a number of birds of prey for display to the public at […]
Read more → 03 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
FINED FOR DESTROYING A BAT ROOST On Monday 1st July 2013 a Chorley Magistrates Court heard a case against a Mr David Michael Dalton, 33, of Chorley New Road, Lostock, Bolton. Dalton, who had been charged with destroying a bat roost. Following a guilty plea Mr Dalton was fined £540 with £100 costs and a […]
Read more → 03 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild turtledoves and quail when one of the birdsellers saw the disapproval in my face and called out sarcastically, in Arabic: “You Americans feel bad about the birds, but you don’t feel bad about dropping bombs […]
Read more → 03 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “Measuring the age of carbon that came from nuclear weapons tests in the 20th century could help conservationists detect illegal ivory and pinpoint poaching hotspots, according to new research. Despite the 1989 ban on the ivory trade, the illegal poaching and slaughter of elephants is still rife in many areas of Africa, leading Barack Obama […]
Read more → 02 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “A series of measures have been drawn up aimed at protecting Scotland’s “magnificent” wildlife. The crackdown on crime against birds of prey was unveiled by Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse. Launching the initiative, he condemned the “outdated, barbaric and criminal practices” which he said had put wildlife at risk. Mr Wheelhouse added: “I am determined to […]
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