Forces join together to tackle hare coursing
Poachers in North Yorkshire warned as police step up rural crime operation
Gin trap found in sand dunes at South Wales nature reserve
Scottish gamekeeper who killed protected birds of prey avoids jail
Spalding illegal ivory trader faces jail
Monkey skulls found in Devon police raid
Endangered Species Operation - arrests in West Yorkshire
Police caution two men for trapping goldfinches in North Yorkshire
Operation Thunderball: Organised crime hit hard by joint WCO-INTERPOL global enforcement operation
More than 100 pearl mussels poached from Sutherland river
NWCU and Europol meet to combat illegal trade in eels
North Yorkshire Police officer takes on national badger protection role
Suspected illegal owl trade - investigation progresses in West Midlands
WDC and NWCU launch public awareness drive to counter increasing dolphin disturbance
Conviction for bat crime in Cumbria
London company fined £18,000 for illegally destroying building where protected bats roosted
02 Sep 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Lincolnshire Police has launched Operation Galileo 2019/2020 to tackle hare coursing. The number of reports of hare coursing has significantly decreased in Lincolnshire since 2016. The drones return to the force’s Operation Galileo effort, to tackle rural crime, along with the additional Ford Rangers and other marked & unmarked 4×4 vehicles which the force uses to respond […]
Read more → 29 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Police in North Yorkshire have warned poachers that their illegal behaviour will not be tolerated as autumn approaches. The seasonal trend of illegal hare coursing matches the farming calendar, meaning there is typically an increase in poaching offences in September and October, after crops have been harvested, and fields are left empty and open. North […]
Read more → 26 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Geneva, 26 August 2019 – The most recent global wildlife enforcement operation, codenamed Operation Thunderball, involved 109 countries. It resulted in over 1,800 seizures across all continents and the arrest of close to 600 suspects. Such successful wildlife law-enforcement operations demonstrate what can be achieved when CITES Parties work together to crack down on wildlife crime. […]
Read more → 22 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
An illegally set gin trap has been found in sand dunes at a nature reserve. The trap was found on Tuesday by a member of the public between Haul Road and the beach at Kenfig nature reserve in Bridgend. It is designed to catch an animal by its leg, using spring-operated jaws with teeth or […]
Read more → 21 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Campaigners call for stiffer penalties after Alan Wilson given community sentence A sheriff has criticised Scotland’s weak wildlife crime laws after a gamekeeper convicted of killing protected birds of prey and mammals avoided a prison term. Alan Wilson, 60, pleaded guilty in July to shooting and trapping badgers, an otter, goshawks and buzzards and installing […]
Read more → 14 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
A Spalding man faces a possible jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to buying unworked sections of illegal elephant tusks. Slawomir Kazmierczak, 55, also admitted trading in illegal ivory jewellery which he bought on eBay. Kazmierczak, of Redthorne Close, Spalding, will be sentenced in October after a judge said the culling of elephants for profit […]
Read more → 14 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4
Thirty monkey skulls have been seized after police raided properties in Devon searching for endangered species. A 52-year-old man from Newton Abbot was interviewed by police in connection with the seizures and released while an investigation is carried out. The macaque skulls were found during raids in Newton Abbot and Torquay. The UK’s National Wildlife […]
Read more → 05 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
On Thursday 1st August 2019, officers from the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and West Yorkshire investigating the illegal import (from China) and subsequent sale of Siamese Crocodile skulls, executed three search warrants in the Bradford area. As a result of the operation a 26 year old man from the Bradford area was arrested on […]
Read more → 30 Jul 2019
Posted by NWCU4
Four men have been sentenced for offences under the Badger Act 1992 and Animal Welfare Act 2006 after they were found interfering with a known badger sett in the village of Hovingham, North Yorkshire. Clint Dodd Daniel Joyce Michael Dodd Connor Pounder Clint Dodd, 23, Michael Dodd, 28, both […]
Read more → 26 Jul 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
NORTH Yorkshire Police have cautioned two men who were caught with two caged, wild goldfinches. Rural and wildlife crime officer Graham Bilton and RSPCA officers seized two caged goldfinches from the men who admitted to the illegal possession and control of the wild birds while in the Seamer area of Scarborough. On examination, the birds […]
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