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
14 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Thirty monkey skulls have been seized after police raided properties in Devon searching for endangered species. A 52-year-old man from Newton Abbot was interviewed by police in connection with the seizures and released while an investigation is carried out. The macaque skulls were found during raids in Newton Abbot and Torquay. The UK’s National Wildlife […]
Read more → 05 Aug 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
On Thursday 1st August 2019, officers from the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and West Yorkshire investigating the illegal import (from China) and subsequent sale of Siamese Crocodile skulls, executed three search warrants in the Bradford area. As a result of the operation a 26 year old man from the Bradford area was arrested on […]
Read more → 30 Jul 2019
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Four men have been sentenced for offences under the Badger Act 1992 and Animal Welfare Act 2006 after they were found interfering with a known badger sett in the village of Hovingham, North Yorkshire. Clint Dodd Daniel Joyce Michael Dodd Connor Pounder Clint Dodd, 23, Michael Dodd, 28, both […]
Read more → 26 Jul 2019
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NORTH Yorkshire Police have cautioned two men who were caught with two caged, wild goldfinches. Rural and wildlife crime officer Graham Bilton and RSPCA officers seized two caged goldfinches from the men who admitted to the illegal possession and control of the wild birds while in the Seamer area of Scarborough. On examination, the birds […]
Read more → 19 Jul 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
The videos came to light after police and the RSPCA raided Leo Price’s home at the Brooks Green travellers site on Mangreen Lane, Keswick on June 11 2018. They found a cache of guns, ammunition and cannabis plants. Price was jailed for seven years on January 11 this year for possession of the firearms and […]
Read more → 10 Jul 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
A joint worldwide customs and police operation has resulted in the seizure of large quantities of protected flora and fauna across every continent. From 4 to 30 June 2019, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and INTERPOL coordinated Operation Thunderball, with police and customs administrations leading joint enforcement operations against wildlife crime across 109 countries. A […]
Read more → 10 Jul 2019
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Police are investigating the poaching of freshwater pearl mussels at a Highlands river. The remains of more than 100 of the protected shellfish were found on the upper reaches of the River Oykel in Sutherland on 4 July 2019. Police believe the poaching happened some time over the last two months. The mussels […]
Read more → 21 Jun 2019
Posted by NWCU4
On Wednesday 26th June 2019 the UK’s National Wildlife Crime Unit will be hosting a meeting of enforcement agencies from across Europe and North America at the Natural History Museum, London. This meeting, organised by Europol in conjunction with the NWCU, will be examining the illegal trade in eels and looking at how enforcement can continue […]
Read more → 12 Jun 2019
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A gamekeeper convicted of animal cruelty has been allowed to continue keeping dogs. A terrier owned by Daniel Brockley, 30, was likely to have been injured by a badger defending itself. The Court also heard Brockley shared pictures of the Patterdale Terrier, named Rock, with a jaw injury apparently caused when the dog was working underground. Magistrates […]
Read more → 24 May 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
A national group which aims to protect badgers from persecution has a new lead from North Yorkshire. Inspector Kevin Kelly, of North Yorkshire Police, has taken on the high-profile role in the Badger Persecution Priority Delivery Group, part of the UK [wildlife crime policing strategy]. As plan owner, Insp Kelly will lead the group’s work […]
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