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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
02 Apr 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Plans to reintroduce the UK’s largest bird of prey to the south coast of England have been given the go-ahead. White-tailed eagles, which have a wingspan of up to 2.5m (8ft), were once widespread but were wiped out in the UK a century ago. Natural England has issued a licence to the Roy Dennis Wildlife […]
Read more → 01 Apr 2019
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Rare birds could be disturbed or even distressed by errant drone pilots trying to get photographs, it has been warned. Drone pilots, whether hobbyists or photographers, are warned to avoid disturbing nesting birds in Suffolk Suffolk has some very sensitive sites where rare bird breeds, both native and migratory, are either already nesting or will […]
Read more → 23 Mar 2019
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An innovative new type of satellite tag has been designed to provide a boost to understanding raptor movements and behaviour, as well as help understand the fate of birds which die in the Cairngorms National Park and more widely across Scotland. Over the next 18 months some young Golden Eagles in and around the Cairngorms […]
Read more → 19 Mar 2019
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Hen harriers are disappearing on English grouse moors due to illegal killing, according to a scientific study. The birds of prey are one of England’s rarest birds, and a protected species. Data gathered over a decade found satellite-tagged hen harriers were ten times more likely to die or vanish when they were on or near […]
Read more → 27 Feb 2019
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A gamekeeper found guilty of committing a wildlife crime received a conditional discharge at Skipton Magistrates’ Court. Austin Hawke, 51, of Ilkley, failed to check a snare following an incident at Denton on 29 May 2018 where a badger was found dead. The offence is listed under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Following a […]
Read more → 18 Feb 2019
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On Wednesday 6th February 2019 Mr Piara Singh SEHAJPAL pleaded guilty at Haywards Heath Magistrates Court to two charges of destroying bat roosts. The first charge related to the destruction of a brown long eared roost and the second a common pipistrelle roost. Although initial surveys confirmed the presence of the roosts no emergence surveys […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2019
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Police are investigating a potential wildlife poisoning in Londonderry. Carcasses of game birds were pegged up in a woodland in the Victoria Road area “in order to poison wildlife”, said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). “We will be having these examined to find out what surprises have been left on the carcasses and […]
Read more → 13 Feb 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
WILDLIFE experts are celebrating an ‘egg-cellent’ rescue operation after successfully rearing 17 rare birds of prey seized from an international egg smuggler. Three of the birds saved at the International Centre for Birds of Prey (ICBP) in Newent are ‘endangered’ Cape vultures, and delighted staff now hope to be able to breed from them to […]
Read more → 23 Jan 2019
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Five men who used two dogs, one of which was heavily pregnant, to attack a badger sett have each been jailed for six months. Andrew Booth, 44, Kirk McGarry, 50, John Horner, 19, George Horner, 26, and Richard Willey, 46, were caught digging at a sett in East Yorkshire in 2017. They were each […]
Read more → 21 Jan 2019
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Stephanie Scolaro admitted smuggling fashion accessories made from endangered species’ skin. Scolaro, 26, was handed a 160-hour community order to be carried out over the next two years after she pleaded guilty to two counts of importing goods with the intent to evade a prohibition. She was also charged with two counts of keeping for sale […]
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