NWCU Intelligence Analyst Vacancy
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
15 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “The Angling Trust has secured an important breakthrough in the war against poachers and fish thieves. Now all 132,000 police officers in England and Wales will have web access to fisheries enforcement guidance and the law on POLKA – the national Police On-Line Knowledge Area. Officers in the 43 forces in England […]
Read more → 11 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “A MAN has been fined for illegally importing elephant ivory into New Zealand. The case against Jiezhen Jiang came about after raids at two homes, including one in Cheltenham. Police raided a house in Duke Street, Fairview, in November 2011, and seized elephant tusks believed to be worth thousands of pounds on the black market. […]
Read more → 10 Jul 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
 An Auckland man has been fined NZ$12,000 for illegally importing ivory. His conviction comes as a result of coordinated UK enquiries by the National Wildlife Crime Unit, Gloucestershire Police and UK Border Force which resulted in the successful UK conviction of Antiques dealer Alex Maw for selling ivory ornaments online (Sept 2012). See http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Antiques-dealer-Alex-Maw-fined-pound-1-000/story-17009126-detail/story.html#axzz2YcgjGqbg for more details. […]
Read more → 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 […]
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