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
Monmouthshire company fined for damaging an important Great Crested Newt habitat
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 […]
Read more → 20 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
NWCU welcome Insp Amy Hunter as the new lead for the Poaching Priority Delivery Group in England & Wales Amy Hunter is a Police Inspector from North Yorkshire Police, she is currently the Staff Officer to Chief Constable Lisa Winward and Deputy Chief Constable Phil Cain. Amy started her career with North Yorkshire Police in 2010, […]
Read more → 13 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Officers and partners who executed a warrant at a rural property in East Dorset have seized pesticides, dead birds of prey and a firearm. Dorset Police Wildlife Crime Officers have been working with the Police National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), Natural England and the RSPB to investigate the alleged poisoning of a Red Kite, which […]
Read more → 10 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU1 
An endangered bird of prey has been shot dead and hung from a tree in a Norfolk village. Norfolk police were called to Swaffham Road in Cockley Cley on Friday, April 9, 2021, after someone reported a dead bird hanging from a tree. Police arrived on the scene to find a red kite, and an […]
Read more → 06 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
RSPCA and North Wales Police have launched an urgent appeal after a suspected falcon shooting in Gwynedd. The bird of prey was found with puncture wounds in Penrhyndeudraeth, near Porthmadog – and sadly had to be put to sleep due the extent of his injuries. The RSPCA has urged people in the Gwynedd area […]
Read more → 01 Apr 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Police are working with partners to help protect seabirds and marine mammals on the Yorkshire Coast. Operation Seabird was launched in 2020 on the coastline of North and East Yorkshire to tackle disturbance to marine wildlife. It is a partnership-led initiative combining involving North Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police along with the RSPCA, Yorkshire Marine […]
Read more → 31 Mar 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
A man’s been cautioned after officers from Staffordshire Police’s Rural and Wildlife Team were notified of a Larsen trap with live pigeons used as decoy birds in an area of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The 60-year-old from Newcastle was handed a conditional caution after officers caught the trap being deployed and pigeons inside. The conditions of his caution […]
Read more → 25 Mar 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
A kestrel was shot and killed in Leeds ‘last week’ (15-21st March 2021), police said. West Yorkshire Police’s Wildlife & Rural Crime team said the Kestrel was discovered at the junction of Leeds Road and Park Lane in Allerton Bywater. The force has now launched an appeal for information. Anyone who can help police should […]
Read more → 21 Mar 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Northumbria Police have put out an appeal for information as a female satellite tagged hen harrier goes missing. The appeal was put out on Twitter on 12th March 2021 (@NPNland) stating that a satellite tag fitted to a female hen harrier had last transmitted on February 24 to the south of Halthwhistle. The police ask […]
Read more → 18 Mar 2021
Posted by NWCU4
Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group – Chairperson Required An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Chief Inspector or Superintendent to take up the Chair of the Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group (RPPDG) immediately. Raptor persecution is one of seven national UK Wildlife Crime priorities, identified through the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) Strategic Assessment. Each […]
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