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 Jul 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
A man has been fined after being found guilty of disturbing a badger sett in North Yorkshire. Matthew Sharp, 49, was convicted following a trial at Harrogate Magistrates Court on Monday. He was ordered to pay a £600 fine, £620 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge. Sharp was charged with interfering with a badger […]
Read more → 17 Jul 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
School children in Scotland have been learning about badgers as part of a drive to stamp out badger persecution. Campaigners at the Scottish Badgers conservation charity say persecution is still a problem in many communities. Source: BBC To read the full article, click here.
Read more → 29 Jun 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport have seized 19 eggs containing rare and endangered bird species, two of which had already hatched. The detection was made on 26 June when officers stopped a man who had arrived on a flight from South Africa. When the man was questioned and searched, 19 bird eggs were found […]
Read more → 20 Jun 2018
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A man currently serving a jail sentence for offering to sell parts of endangered species has been ordered to pay back £100,642 within six months or face another three-year jail sentence. Allawi Abbas, 53, (02/02/1965) of Gisburne Way, Hertfordshire, was sentenced to 14 months in jail in November for keeping/offering for sale rhinoceros horns, elephant […]
Read more → 15 Jun 2018
Posted by NWCU4
Police are investigating the suspected theft of eggs from a golden eagle’s nest in the Highlands. Officers suspect an egg collector climbed up to the nest to steal the eggs in the incident in the Kincraig area of the Cairngorms. The incident was reported to police on Monday and officers visited the nest site. […]
Read more → 15 Jun 2018
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Police in Aviemore are appealing for information after a number of endangered freshwater pearl mussels were removed from the River Spey and killed. A total of 80 mussels were found near the fishing hut approximately a quarter-mile downstream from the Old Spey Bridge in Grantown. They are believed to have been removed sometime over the […]
Read more → 05 Jun 2018
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A hare courser has been fined £500 for using a dog to try to catch an animal at Glenrothes Airport. William McPhee was photographed at the aerodrome by a neighbour who saw the dog come within five metres of catching a brown hare. Poaching and hare coursing are offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 […]
Read more → 30 May 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
UK Border Force officers sort through seized ivory items. A month-long crackdown during May 2018, codenamed ‘Operation Thunderstorm’, tackled the illegal trade in flora and fauna, involved 92 countries and was a concerted strike against wildlife traffickers and their £17billion-a-year illicit enterprises. Around the world suspects were arrested and seizures of animals, ivory and bushmeat were […]
Read more → 24 May 2018
Posted by NWCU4
A red kite has died after being caught in an illegal gin trap. The RSPCA launched an appeal for information after the bird was found in the trap on Park Avenue, Aberystwyth, on 7 May. The bird, which is legally protected, was taken to a vet with injuries including broken legs. It was put down […]
Read more → 21 May 2018
Posted by NWCU4
A rare red kite had to be put down after it was found shot and blinded in County Durham, the RSPB said. The bird was found alive in Derwent Gorge, near Shotley Bridge, by a member of the public. However, after it was found to be blind it was euthanized. Since 2010, six kites […]
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