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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
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 […]
Read more → 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
Posted by NWCU4 
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
Posted by NWCU4 
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
Posted by NWCU4 
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 […]
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