North Yorkshire Gamekeeper found guilty for failing to check a snare which led to badger death
Thames Valley Police bat crime conviction
Five men jailed over badger baiting in Humberside
Wildlife criminal jailed for rare bird eggs importation attempt
Forensic evidence dogs trained to detect CITES related scents
Norfolk man who illegally hoarded 5,000 rare eggs jailed
Herefordshire's Poacherwatch successes
Campaigners bid for private prosecution over 'wildlife crime' at opencast site
Suspended Prison Sentence for Falcon Keeper
NWCU supports National Badger Day
Police investigating after red kite shot out of sky above Saddleworth Moor
London trader sentenced after endangered leopard and wolf fur coats seized
Natural England joins forces to tackle Hare Coursing in East of England
Arrests after 18 deer shot dead in Wyre Forest field
Drones and Wildlife: Operators warned against misuse
Golden eagle chicks released to boost south of Scotland population
North Yorkshire Gamekeeper convicted of shooting two protected owls
Bassenthwaite ospreys: Farmer guilty of disturbing nest
Avon taxidermy dealer pleads guilty to trading in endangered species
27 Feb 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
A gamekeeper found guilty of committing a wildlife crime received a conditional discharge at Skipton Magistrates’ Court. Austin Hawke, 51, of Ilkley, failed to check a snare following an incident at Denton on 29 May 2018 where a badger was found dead. The offence is listed under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Following a […]
Read more → 18 Feb 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
On Wednesday 6th February 2019 Mr Piara Singh SEHAJPAL pleaded guilty at Haywards Heath Magistrates Court to two charges of destroying bat roosts. The first charge related to the destruction of a brown long eared roost and the second a common pipistrelle roost. Although initial surveys confirmed the presence of the roosts no emergence surveys […]
Read more → 23 Jan 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Five men who used two dogs, one of which was heavily pregnant, to attack a badger sett have each been jailed for six months. Andrew Booth, 44, Kirk McGarry, 50, John Horner, 19, George Horner, 26, and Richard Willey, 46, were caught digging at a sett in East Yorkshire in 2017. They were each […]
Read more → 21 Jan 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Stephanie Scolaro admitted smuggling fashion accessories made from endangered species’ skin. Scolaro, 26, was handed a 160-hour community order to be carried out over the next two years after she pleaded guilty to two counts of importing goods with the intent to evade a prohibition. She was also charged with two counts of keeping for sale […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who tried to smuggle 19 rare and endangered bird eggs into the UK strapped to his body was jailed for three years and one month on 10 January 2019. The smuggling attempt was uncovered by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport on 26 June 2018 when officers stopped Jeffrey Lendrum after he arrived on a […]
Read more → 27 Dec 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Abbas Allawi, 52, of Watford, Hertfordshire was sentenced to 14 months in prison, for offences relating to the illegal keeping and selling of parts of endangered species. On Monday, 19 October 2016, a search warrant was executed at Allawi’s home address in Hertfordshire, by officers from the Met’s Wildlife Crime Unit, the Dog Unit and supporting […]
Read more → 27 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A “one-man crime wave” who illegally collected more than 5,000 rare bird eggs has been jailed. Daniel Lingham, 65, was spotted “head-to-toe in camouflage gear” picking eggs up off the ground in Norfolk in May. Police investigators later discovered a 5,266-egg hoard at his home, including specimens from endangered and rare species. Lingham, of Newton […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
In November 2018, ten parties of poachers were apprehended and dealt with by West Mercia Police (WMP). During the activity numerous interviews have taken place and an air weapon has been seized. The activity comes as a result of information from the community, specifically an organised group called Poacherwatch. Poacherwatch is a group formed by […]
Read more → 01 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU5 
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have launched a bid to take out a private prosecution against a coal company over the alleged destruction of a newt habitat. Campaign to Protect Pont Valley is seeking to taking action against Banks Group for “destroying the breeding and resting places of protected great crested newts” at Brooms Pond, on the […]
Read more → 15 Oct 2018
Posted by NWCU1 
WARNING: This article contains images which some readers may find disturbing. On Friday 12th October 2018, Mary Holliday Lamar, 51 years, of Ashover Road, Old Tupton, Derbyshire pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Magistrates Court to possessing a wild Peregrine falcon and keeping an unregistered Schedule 4 bird. Lamar, who is a US national now living in […]
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