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
08 Jan 2020
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PC Claire Dinsdale from the Dorset Rural Crime Team has been awarded a Queen’s Police Medal. NWCU join colleagues from across Dorset and the wider police community in congratulating Claire on receiving such an honour.
Read more → 10 Dec 2019
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Police wildlife crime specialists in Scotland work to protect some of the most endangered creatures on the planet. The trade in endangered species falls under the remit of the Scots wildlife team – Det Sgt Robert More (Police Scotland) and PC Charlie Everitt (National Wildlife Crime Unit). Seizures have included a snow leopard pelt […]
Read more → 24 Nov 2019
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The University has been awarded a highly prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for the work of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE). The official announcement took place at St James’s Palace on Thursday 21 November 2019. The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes are awarded, within the honours system, for exceptional contributions by institutions in the […]
Read more → 24 Nov 2019
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13 November, 2019 CRAIGAVON Magistrates Court heard that a man is accused of selling more than 200 animals including lions, crocodiles and a great white shark. Among other animals 38-year-old Roman Panik, formerly of Beech Court in Lurgan, is alleged to have sold are alligators, tigers, leopards, pumas, lynxes, buzzards, otters, wolves, bobcats and […]
Read more → 18 Nov 2019
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On Friday 15th November 2019 Lee WELLINGS, 45 yrs., a breeder of Barn owls from Scholars Walk, Walsall was sentenced at Walsall Magistrates Court for 13 offences relating to the prohibited sale of Annex ‘A’ species, making false statements to obtain permits to sell Annex ‘A’ species and for possessing three wild Barn owls. WELLINGS […]
Read more → 02 Nov 2019
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When it comes to describing where things are in rural areas, things can get really complicated. Many places like barns, field entrances and country laybys have no address at all, and postcodes tend to cover unhelpfully broad areas. Growing up on a farm in rural Hertfordshire , Chris Sheldrick gained first-hand experience of the daily […]
Read more → 29 Oct 2019
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On Monday 28/10/2019, Arron William Halstead, 28 yrs., of Glen View Road, Burnley appeared at Burnley Crown Court charged with 21 offences contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997. Halstead pleaded guilty to 3 offences of ‘prohibited offering for sale Annex ‘A’ species’, namely a Rhinoceros skull, a Sawfish rostrum […]
Read more → 28 Oct 2019
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Lee Wellings, 45 yrs., of Scholars Walk, Walsall appeared at Walsall Magistrates Court (24/10/2019), where he pleaded guilty to 13 charges relating to illegal possession of and trade in barn owls. The case was the result of a protracted investigation by West Midlands Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit. As the result […]
Read more → 21 Oct 2019
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On 15th October 2019, Michael TANG, 49, of Cardiff appeared at Cardiff Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to 18 charges contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 and six charges contrary to the Customs and Excise Act 1979 relating to the illegal import and purchase of a number of skulls […]
Read more → 18 Oct 2019
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A Spalding man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for trading in illegal ivory, including buying unworked sections of illegal elephant tusks. Slawomir Kazmierczak, 55, of Redthorne Close, Spalding previously pleaded guilty to nine charges relating to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997. The nine charges relate to offences between […]
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