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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
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. […]
Read more → 17 Jan 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Nottinghamshire Police officers have worked closely with the RSPB after they were called on 12 January following concern to wildlife in the Kneeton area. All birds of prey are protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. To intentionally kill or injure one is a criminal offence and could result in an unlimited fine or […]
Read more → 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 […]
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