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2025-2028 NPCC Wildlife & Rural Crime Strategy
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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
25 Mar 2021
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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
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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
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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 […]
Read more → 15 Mar 2021
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An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Police Officer to lead the Poaching Priority Delivery Group for England & Wales: Poaching Priority Delivery Group – Chairperson Required 15th March 2021 An exciting development opportunity has arisen for an Inspector, Chief Inspector or Superintendent to take up the Chair of the Poaching Priority Delivery Group […]
Read more → 14 Mar 2021
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The shot Red Kite was found near Salperton, a village located about eight miles east of Cheltenham on March 12 2021. Gloucestershire Police’s rural crime team found the bird and have released X-ray photos. The rural crime team said on Twitter: “Red Kite shot 12/03, Salperton Village. Believed to be shot close to village. […]
Read more → 11 Mar 2021
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The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority have expressed dismay and shock after footage released showed two buzzards being lured to their deaths on a North Yorkshire grouse moor. The footage, released by the RSPB investigations team, showed a large eagle owl being used to draw in buzzards. A man nearby, who had tethered the owl […]
Read more → 10 Mar 2021
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Dedicated rural police officers have secured criminal behaviour orders for three men convicted of hare coursing in Essex after a 17-month investigation. On 13 October 2019, a farmer reported to us that four men with lurcher dogs were walking across his land in West Hanningfield, and were believed to be hare coursing. During the call, […]
Read more → 10 Mar 2021
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Jonathon Saggerson (47yrs) a professional taxidermist of Gadsden Court, Milton Keynes appeared at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court today (10th March 2021) to be sentenced for offences relating to the prohibited purchase and offering for sale of the skull of a Barasingha, also known as a Swamp Deer (Annex ‘A’ species). Saggerson was also sentenced for a […]
Read more → 09 Mar 2021
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The NWCU are pleased to announce the new chair and secretary for the Badger Persecution Priority Delivery Group (BPPDG). DC Aaron Flint from Lincolnshire Police will take over as Chair and PC Sam O’Key from Cumbria Police will assist as Secretary. Both are prominent figures in the Wildlife Crime arena and are accomplished Wildlife Crime […]
Read more → 09 Mar 2021
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Police are set to investigate the death of two peregrine falcons which nested at the iconic Samson and Goliath cranes in Belfast. It is believed the birds, which are protected by law, were poisoned. They were found lying close together under the cranes at the weekend and have been removed for post mortem examination. The birds […]
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