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
25 Jun 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
RSPB Scotland found satellite tracking devices attached to a pair of hen harriers both stopped transmitting in April 2020. The organisation had been following two males fledged in 2018 – Marlin, from Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire, and Hoolie from Easter Ross. Marlin flew south and spent the last two winters in North Yorkshire, while […]
Read more → 16 Jun 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Eggs from peregrine falcon nests at three different sites in the Peak District were taken in early spring, Derbyshire Police has revealed. The force said there could be a number of individuals or groups responsible as part of a “black market trade”. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said the eggs may have been removed while volunteers – […]
Read more → 04 Jun 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Greater Manchester Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after a buzzard was found shot near Diggle, in the Peak District National Park, on May 11. A member of the public found the bird dying on the ground and contacted the RSPB. However it had to be euthanised by a vet the next morning […]
Read more → 02 Jun 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information after five dead buzzards were found hidden in a hole in the ground on land below Fox Hole Crag, on the edge of Bransdale in the North York Moors. An x-ray showing one of the buzzards containing pieces of shot Following information reported to the police in April […]
Read more → 02 Jun 2020
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Mark Goulding has now taken up the role of the Wildlife Crime Project Officer for the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), replacing the recently retired Pete Charleston. Mark served 32 years in the military and South Wales Police. For the last twenty-two years he held frontline police operational posts alongside his wildlife crime role. Mark was […]
Read more → 30 May 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Police Scotland have thanked the public for its assistance in relation to recent appeals for information (May 2020). Following investigations, officers have confirmed that three men aged 38, 34 and 19 years will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal in connection to reported offences in the Fochabers and Urquhart area. Constable Hannah Haywood, of the […]
Read more → 28 May 2020
Posted by NWCU4
Four men have been arrested and charged in connection with wildlife crime offences across the Scottish Borders, Midlothian, East Lothian and Stirling. Between Sunday, 1 March, 2020, and Wednesday, 29 April, 2020, officers received a number of reports of possible hare coursing activity in the Stirling, Haddington, Duns, Kelso, Gifford and Kippen areas. On Wednesday, […]
Read more → 27 May 2020
Posted by NWCU4
Analysis shows buzzard killed by combination of four different pesticides North Yorkshire Police is urging pet owners to be vigilant after analysis of a dead buzzard found near Pateley Bridge showed the presence of four pesticides in its system which are believed to be the cause of death. In March 2020, a member of the […]
Read more → 25 May 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
A housing developer has avoided jail after demolishing a Derbyshire bungalow despite knowing it was home to bats. In 2018, an application was made to North East Derbyshire District Council by a local developer to demolish an existing bungalow in Amber Lane, Ashover and, in its place, build a new dwelling. An ecologist’s survey identified […]
Read more → 21 May 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Police have raised concerns after three birds of prey were found dead in the Staffordshire Moorlands. On Saturday (16 May) a buzzard and peregrine falcon were sadly discovered dead in a wooded area of Longnor, and yesterday (Tuesday 19 May) a second peregrine falcon was found dead near Wetton. As there were no visible signs […]
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