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
17 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A group of agencies chaired by Natural England has joined forces to tackle the seasonal issue of illegal hare coursing. With the harvest now complete, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex police forces are working in partnership with the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), Natural England and the Country Land and Business Association to tackle […]
Read more → 13 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Three men have been arrested after a herd of 18 deer were shot dead in a field, West Mercia Police said. The deer were discovered on farmland on the edge of the Wyre Forest in Worcestershire on 4 August. A 59-year-old from Highley, Bridgnorth, a 35-year-old from Cleobury Mortimer and a 22-year-old from Kidderminster were […]
Read more → 04 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
31 August 2018 Specialists have warned that those operating drones could be causing stress to wildlife. Drones have become increasingly popular for taking aerial photographs and for conservation work, such as scientific surveys. But your drone could put you on the wrong side of the law, if you fly it too close to wildlife. The […]
Read more → 04 Sep 2018
Posted by NWCU4
A long-awaited project to boost the population of golden eagles in the south of Scotland has taken off. Three young golden eagles have been released into the wild at a secret location in the Moffat Hills. They were moved from nests in the Highlands where the majority of the birds are usually found. The translocation […]
Read more → 29 Aug 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
The conviction of a gamekeeper who shot two protected short-eared owls should serve as a warning to others who commit wildlife crime, North Yorkshire Police said. Timothy Cowin, 44, pleaded guilty to two charges concerning the intentional killing of two protected short-eared owls on the Whernside Estate in Cumbria, an area managed for driven grouse […]
Read more → 21 Aug 2018
Posted by NWCU4
A farmer has been convicted of two charges of intentionally disturbing the nest of a pair of breeding ospreys. Paul Barnes, 58, from Braithwaite near Keswick, was found guilty following a three-day trial at Workington Magistrates’ Court. He drove his tractor and trailer with a group of children close to the Bassenthwaite site in June […]
Read more → 06 Aug 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Jacek Oleksiak (42yrs) of Blenheim Drive, Yate, Avon appeared before Bristol Magistrates Court (02/08/2018) and pleaded guilty to 9 offences of prohibited sale of Annex ‘A’ species, and a further charge of fraudulently evading export restrictions in respect to a specimen he exported to the USA without permits. Between May and June 2017 the owner […]
Read more → 01 Aug 2018
Posted by NWCU4
Officers from Surrey Police, the Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit and the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) took part in a joint operation on 31/07/2018 when they visited Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park Racecourse. The aim of the operation was to ensure that any traders dealing in endangered species and their derivatives were […]
Read more → 25 Jul 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Today (25th July 2018) sees the launch of the first National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) strategies to tackle wildlife and rural crime across the UK. Over the last 14 months the Wildlife Crime Policing Strategy and Rural Affair’s Strategy have been developed through inclusive consultation with police and partners. The contribution and feedback from police […]
Read more → 20 Jul 2018
Posted by NWCU6
A hunt master has been accused of illegally persecuting badgers after he was filmed setting a trap and baiting it with peanuts. The trap later caught a badger but the animal managed to escape before Christopher White returned. The footage was passed to the RSPCA, which said it had “given advice about the legal use […]
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