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
21 Aug 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Police have confirmed, as a result of proactive police work, four people have been charged with hare coursing in the Laurencekirk area. PC David Charley, one of North East Division’s Wildlife Crime Champions who led the operation, said: “Hare coursing is a vile and despicable act that causes pain and suffering. “This is not just […]
Read more → 14 Aug 2020
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POLICE are investigating the death of a peregrine falcon after it was ‘shot with a pellet gun’. Police were called to Bingley Three Rise Locks around 2.22pm on 11th August 2020 by a number of passers-by and the lock keeper. After initial inspection, it was determined the bird had been shot with a pellet gun and […]
Read more → 10 Aug 2020
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A police wildlife officer who has helped convict offenders that have inflicted pain and suffering on animals is to receive a British Citizen Award. PC Peter Baker is to be recognised for his services to the community by receiving a coveted British Citizen Award Medal of Honour. The Southwick-based cop, now in his 17th year […]
Read more → 07 Aug 2020
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The Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Ireland, (PAW Ireland) was recently launched, with plans already in place to develop a smartphone app to help members of the public to report and stop offences against Irish wildlife. PAW Ireland brings together conservationists, land managers, welfare groups and statutory agencies with the common goal of […]
Read more → 04 Aug 2020
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Detectives want to track the owner of the dog, believed to be a black Staffordshire Bull Terrier Police have launched an investigation after a swan was killed by a dog in Epping Forest. Forest keepers were called to Jubilee Park pond at 9am on August 4 and found the swan motionless. It’s since been found that […]
Read more → 31 Jul 2020
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A rare eagle which was found dead in Aberdeenshire had been poisoned, police have confirmed. Officers said they are treating the death of the white-tailed sea eagle as suspicious. Its corpse was recovered from Donside, Aberdeenshire, in April, and a post-mortem examination has now established it died from pesticide poisoning. The raptors were reintroduced into […]
Read more → 24 Jul 2020
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The buzzard as it was found. (Photo courtesy of RSPB) North Yorkshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after a dead buzzard was found on Live Moor close to the village of Swainby. The bird was discovered by a member of the public on 20 March 2020 and reported to the RSPB before […]
Read more → 20 Jul 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Concern is growing for a missing golden eagle which vanished in an a area of Perthshire known as a persecution hotspot for birds of prey. The eagle’s tracking device stopped transmitting while it was roosting around Loch Tay, in the Strathbraan area. It is the latest in a long line of similar disappearances, […]
Read more → 15 Jul 2020
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The goshawk seen in the cage trap North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about an incident in which a goshawk appeared to be killed after becoming caught in a cage trap. Video footage, which was passed on to North Yorkshire Police, shows the bird becoming caught in the trap in the early hours of […]
Read more → 05 Jul 2020
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The female buzzard North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information after a female buzzard was discovered shot near Appleton le Moors on Sunday 5 July. The bird was found suffering multiple injuries in woods just off Hamley Lane, Appleton le Moors by a member of the public. Although the buzzard received immediate veterinary treatment, she […]
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