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
06 Feb 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Two men will appear in court charged with poaching and COVID-19 offences. On the afternoon of Saturday 23 January 2021, police were called to a report that suspected poachers were chasing hares with a dog in a field near Chapel Haddlesey, Selby. North Yorkshire Police officers attended immediately, and arrested two men in their 30s. […]
Read more → 06 Feb 2021
Posted by NWCU4
Three men were sent home with COVID-19 FPNs after being stopped by police poaching patrols in North Yorkshire. At about 10am on Sunday 24 January 2021 , police were called with a report that a blue Subaru Impreza was involved in poaching activity in the rural Bedale area. North Yorkshire Police officers attended immediately, and […]
Read more → 04 Feb 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Police are appealing for information after a buzzard was found dead in Horseheath. A member of the public found the bird of prey in a wooded area while on a walk on 29 January 2021. Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT) are now working with the RSPB to find those responsible after it was […]
Read more → 28 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Jonathon SAGGERSON aged 47 of Gadsden Court, Milton Keynes appeared at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court on 27th January 2021 where he pleaded guilty to three offences contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulation 2018 (COTES). All the charges related to the skull of a rare and endangered species of deer known […]
Read more → 25 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Thames Valley Police has made six arrests in connection with incidents of hare coursing in Hungerford. The arrests are in connection with incidents in Churchwood Wickham, Hungerford Hill, and nearby at Shefford Woodlands, Lambourn, shortly before 3.30pm on Saturday 16 January in which groups of males with lurcher dogs were reported to be acting suspiciously […]
Read more → 22 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
A trio of hare coursers who caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a farmer’s crops have been hit with more than £1000 in total fines. Jimmy Cole, 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and Levi Cole, 20, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road, in Fowlmere, at about noon on […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
A number of guns and pesticides have been seized by police as officers investigate the suspected deliberate poisoning of a bird of prey. Suffolk police’s rural crime team launched an investigation following the discovery of a dead common buzzard on land in west Suffolk back in September. Officers then carried out searches and seized several […]
Read more → 18 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Today marks the arrival of a new head of the National Wildlife Crime Unit, Chief Inspector Kevin Kelly. Chief Inspector Kelly joins the national unit from his home force North Yorkshire Police. Ch Insp Kelly, who currently chairs the UK Badger Persecution Priority Delivery Group, has been a prominent figure in the wildlife crime […]
Read more → 17 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Five men were given Covid-19 Fixed Penalty Notices and are being investigated for poaching offences after being stopped by police in the North Stainmore area at the weekend. The men were all from different addresses in Carlisle but had travelled in the same car to North Stainmore. The incident was reported to police shortly before […]
Read more → 17 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Three men have been released under investigation after reports of two separate hare coursing incidents in Wiltshire. At approximately 9.45am on January 17, officers were contacted by local Farm Watch members in Wexcombe, near Marlborough who reported possible hare coursing the area. Shortly after, officers stopped two men travelling in a silver Vauxhall Insignia. […]
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