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
01 Jun 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Russell Oxley (52yrs) a professional taxidermist from Ilkeston, Derbyshire appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on 4th May 2021 where he pleaded guilty to offences relating to the prohibited purchase and offering for sale of the skull and horns of six Gaur Bison, also known as an Indian Bison (Annex ‘A’ species). Oxley was fined £1,000 […]
Read more → 11 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Threats to bats from ‘Urban Exploring’ trend 7th May 2021 The Bat Conservation Trust is aware that a rising trend known as ‘urban exploring’ in abandoned buildings and underground hideaways is illegally impacting on bats. Many bats live in the sorts of places that are now attracting a surge in hobby ‘explorers’, who go into […]
Read more → 06 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Rare birds of prey have been poisoned at a Shropshire beauty spot in the latest in a series of attacks by bird-killers whom wildlife campaigners say are bringing “shame” to the village of Clee Hill. The falcon killers used tethered live pigeons smeared with poison as bait. Shropshire Peregrine Group has issued a warning that […]
Read more → 05 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Wednesday 5 May 2021 11:08 “AN APPALLING act of cruelty” has led to a Rathfriland man being handed a jail sentence as a judge said his actions were “something from the Middle Ages”. Paul Michael Reavey, 53, of Lisnaree Road, near Shinn, was convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to a Patterdale Terrier. The judge said […]
Read more → 05 May 2021
Posted by NWCU1 
On Friday, 19 March, 2021, a Golden Eagle was found dead on a hillside on the Invercauld Estate. Subsequent forensic examination confirmed the bird had been illegally and intentionally poisoned. Extensive enquiries are being carried out and on Tuesday, 4 May, 2021, officers acting under warrant, searched a number of properties on the Invercauld Estate. […]
Read more → 04 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4
NWCU Investigative Support Officer – HC63072 Job Details Job Title: NWCU Investigative Support Officer – HC63072 Hours: 37.00 Hours Per Week Monday – Friday with flexible hours Contact Type: Temporary (for 12 months, with the view to become permanent) Closing date: Sunday 9th May 2021 at 23:59 Hours Click here for application: https://careers.newjob.org.uk/HC/job/Outside-Hampshire-NWCU-Investigative-Support-Officer-HC63072-SCT/669955101/
Read more → 03 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4
POLICE SCOTLAND LAUNCH FORTH PHASE OF OPERATION WINGSPAN, AS PART OF YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN TO TACKLE WILDLIFE CRIME IN SCOTLAND. Police Scotland’s yearlong focus on wildlife crime is now concentrating on Raptor Persecution. Raptor Persecution is a highly emotive subject and as such receives a significant amount of interest from members of the public, particularly in […]
Read more → 02 May 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
The PAW Forensics Working Group (FWG) was established in 1996. Its membership is made up of representatives from the forensic science community, government departments, the Police, UK Border Force and non-governmental organisations. The FWG aims to support the application of scientific technologies to countering wildlife crime in the UK. It keeps abreast of developments in […]
Read more → 21 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Officers have teamed up with partner agencies on a special operation to target raptor persecution. Operation Sunbeam included members of the Barnard Castle Neighbourhood Policing Team, RSPB, Natural England and the National Wildlife Crime Unit who carried out searches at two properties in Teesdale this morning (April 21). It follows an incident last year when […]
Read more → 20 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Police have launched an investigation after a bird of prey was found poisoned to death near Peterborough. Last year a Red Kite was found dead by a member of the public on a piece of land in the Crowland area. The bird was sent off for forensic toxicology tests through the government Wildlife Incident Investigation […]
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