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 Feb 2020
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A man who killed a protected sparrowhawk in his neighbour’s garden, using a catapult, has been spared jail but handed a fine of over £800. Yovanis Cruz, of Copsey Grove, Portsmouth, appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today (25 February 2020) facing 1 charge of intentionally killing a wild bird contrary to the Wildlife and Countryside […]
Read more → 19 Feb 2020
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A 60-year-old pigeon fancier has been fined for shooting and killing a sparrowhawk. Duncan Cowan, from Cowie in Stirlingshire was fined £450 after pleading guilty to a charge under section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Stirling Sheriff Court. The court heard that on the afternoon of 18 April 2019 a bird of prey […]
Read more → 12 Feb 2020
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A man has made subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order for hare coursing – a first for Essex Police – after we responded to reports in West Hanningfield. Samuel Haylett, 30, of Barnes Road, Fimley, Camberley, was ordered to pay a £440 fine, £85 costs and a £44 victim surcharge at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2020
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A seafood salesman has been convicted of smuggling an estimated 5.3 million critically endangered baby eels from Spain to East Asia via the UK over a two year period, in what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Gilbert Khoo, 67, from Parbury Rise, Chessington, was today found guilty […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2020
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Police swooped on two addresses in Kent to seize illegally imported Siamese crocodile skulls. A total of three skulls were found at two separate properties during the raids by Kent police and officers from the UK Wildlife Crime Unit. Police said the owners of the skulls, who are thought to have purchased them online, […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2020
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Avon and Somerset Police’s new Wildlife Officer has completed his first month in the role. PC Pete Wills, who was previously a community beat manager in Burnham-on-Sea, has taken up the role after 22 years with the Force. He grew up in the countryside and has always had a passion for wildlife, so this is […]
Read more → 21 Jan 2020
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A Cheltenham man who tried to export elephant tusks and walrus ivory out of the country has avoided jail today. Peter Maw, 65, of Duke Street, Cheltenham, appeared at Gloucester Crown Court today to be sentenced after he had previously pleaded guilty to five counts of fraudulently evading any duty, prohibition, restriction or provision, on […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2020
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Jimmy Price was today found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a horse and two dogs. A video played to the court showed the dogs, Scout and Tramp, untethered and unfed at the 25-year-old’s home address in Forstal Farm, Loose. The father-of-two was previously convicted in December after repeatedly stabbing a deer. He was also caught […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2020
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A Tonypandy man has been handed a suspended jail sentence and banned from keeping animals after admitting interference with a badger sett near Whitland. Matthew Howell Jones, 38, of Jones Street, also admitted failing to get urgent veterinary treatment for his dog, with the black terrier struggling with ‘very worrying’ injuries that vets say are […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2020
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A suspected hare courser has been jailed for two months after leading police on a dangerous pursuit, reaching speeds of nearly 100mph. Nelson Hedges, 32, was reported to police by members of the public who were concerned he had been hare coursing in his silver Mazda Tribute near Iselham, Cambridgeshire. The force’s Rural Crime Action […]
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