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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
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
Two Lincolnshire men sentenced under new hare coursing legislation
15 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Joint news release issued by the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) and NatureScot Tackling raptor persecution, poaching and hare coursing will be the top priorities for a new wildlife crime specialist covering all of Scotland, appointed late last year. As the Investigative Support Officer for Scotland for the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), PC Gavin […]
Read more → 15 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
A deer hunter in Co Tyrone has been fined £6,000 after police raided his premises and discovered 12 carcasses in a cold-room. Trevor Gannon (45) from Ashleigh Court, Castlederg, admitted failing to comply with food safety and traceability regulations. Strabane Magistrates Court heard police conducted a search on January 16, 2020 under an investigation […]
Read more → 13 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Natural England has admitted that another hen harrier – tagged as part of a conservation project – has gone missing on a grouse moor. The male Hen Harrier, named Harold, disappeared in the same area where another juvenile, Dryad, vanished last September. The moorland between Kirkby Stephen and Ravenseat where the birds’ tags stopped transmitting […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Poachers could face a court appearance and a COVID-19 fixed penalty notice, police have warned, after incidents near Harrogate. Officers on anti-poaching patrols located four 4×4 vehicles reportedly traveling in a convoy near Pateley Bridge at about 6pm on Sunday 10 January 2021. None of the occupants could provide a reasonable excuse for their presence, […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Police are urging people to protect wildlife across Yorkshire during the country’s third national lockdown following a spate of incidents. West Yorkshire Police has already recorded three fatal shootings of kestrels in the first week of January alone, compared to just one in the whole of 2020. Two offences took place in Huddersfield and one […]
Read more → 20 Dec 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Northern Ireland badger crime remains widespread, new badger report reveals A report highlighting the disturbance of badgers and destruction of their setts in Northern Ireland has stated that there were 155 incidents concerning potential crimes against badgers reported to the PSNI during the period 2016-18. Published by the “Partnership for Action against Wildlife Crime […]
Read more → 16 Dec 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Police Scotland lauch second phase of Operation Wingspan, as part of year-long campaign to tackle wildlife crime in Scotland. Op Wingspan phase two – tackling badger persecution, is running now until end of January 2021. The charity Scottish Badgers will be working with Police Scotland to support officer training and in the identification and […]
Read more → 16 Dec 2020
Posted by NWCU4
Police Scotland has confirmed that a red kite found dead in the Ruthven area in October, had been poisoned with a banned pesticide. Further searches were carried out on 15 December 2020 with partner agency RSPB on hill ground near Meall a’ Bhreacraibh and Ruthven, Moy, in the northern Monadliath mountains. No further poisoned raptors […]
Read more → 13 Dec 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
A man is facing a prison sentence after he was convicted after a trial of hunting and killing a badger. Dewi James Price, 39, of Commercial Street, New Tredegar, Caerphilly, was also found guilty of offences against red kites. He had denied the charges during a trial at Newport Magistrates’ Court. Price was found guilty […]
Read more → 13 Dec 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Snakes, spiders, lizards and tortoises were among hundreds of exotic animals rescued in police searches in Telford on 10th December 2020. West Mercia Police arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of fraud after the animals were found at four addresses in the town on Thursday. The animals are believed to have been imported […]
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