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
05 Dec 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Scientists say they have been able to recover fingerprints from bird feathers that have been exposed to wind and rain for the first time. The development could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife crime. Researchers at Dundee’s Abertay University had previously been able to take fingerprints from feathers under laboratory conditions. In the new […]
Read more → 29 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A fishing trip cost a Gloucester man more than £800 after he was caught fishing in the closed season and without a licence. Following a joint patrol with the Environment Agency, Angling Trust and Gloucestershire Police, Frank Cole was found guilty in his absence at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on 26 November for fishing during the […]
Read more → 27 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A “one-man crime wave” who illegally collected more than 5,000 rare bird eggs has been jailed. Daniel Lingham, 65, was spotted “head-to-toe in camouflage gear” picking eggs up off the ground in Norfolk in May. Police investigators later discovered a 5,266-egg hoard at his home, including specimens from endangered and rare species. Lingham, of Newton […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
In November 2018, ten parties of poachers were apprehended and dealt with by West Mercia Police (WMP). During the activity numerous interviews have taken place and an air weapon has been seized. The activity comes as a result of information from the community, specifically an organised group called Poacherwatch. Poacherwatch is a group formed by […]
Read more → 01 Nov 2018
Posted by NWCU6 
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have launched a bid to take out a private prosecution against a coal company over the alleged destruction of a newt habitat. Campaign to Protect Pont Valley is seeking to taking action against Banks Group for “destroying the breeding and resting places of protected great crested newts” at Brooms Pond, on the […]
Read more → 15 Oct 2018
Posted by NWCU1 
WARNING: This article contains images which some readers may find disturbing. On Friday 12th October 2018, Mary Holliday Lamar, 51 years, of Ashover Road, Old Tupton, Derbyshire pleaded guilty at Chesterfield Magistrates Court to possessing a wild Peregrine falcon and keeping an unregistered Schedule 4 bird. Lamar, who is a US national now living in […]
Read more → 06 Oct 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
October 6th is National Badger Day! – a chance for all involved in Badger conservation and protection to celebrate just how magnificent and important one of our oldest native species is to the British countryside and its people. #nationalbadgerday #opbadger Source: Herts Wildlife Trust Did you know? · Badger Persecution has been a UK wildlife crime […]
Read more → 28 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
An investigation led by the North Yorkshire Police, with support from Bat Conservation Trust and City of York Council, has helped to prosecute a developer for unlawfully demolishing a bat roost in York. In 2016 Mr Mike Green on behalf of GEM Holdings (York) Ltd submitted a planning application to City of York Council asking […]
Read more → 21 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Police have launched an investigation after a once-rare bird of prey was shot out of the sky above Saddleworth Moor. The red kite was blasted within the Peak District National Park area. The killing has appalled conservationists. The re-introduction of the species has been a success story in recent decades after its numbers dropped […]
Read more → 20 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A trader has pleaded guilty to selling clothing fashioned from endangered wild cats, authorities said. Timothy Norris illegally listed fur coats, hats and scarves for sale on eBay which had been created from leopards, ocelots, lynx and wolves, Scotland Yard said. The 40-year-old, from Surrey, pleaded guilty to illegally trading in endangered species at Croydon […]
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