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
20 Mar 2018
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41 year old Ngie Chung-Law of India House, Derby appeared at Derby Magistrates Court on 19th March 2018 charged with a total of 15 offences relating to the illegal trade and export of elephant ivory. The case is the result of a joint investigation involving the National Wildlife Crime Unit, Derbyshire Police and UK Border […]
Read more → 14 Mar 2018
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Twelve golden eagles have disappeared in an area of the Highlands RSPB Scotland dubbed a “black hole” for satellite-tagged birds of prey. Over the last seven years, the raptors’ tags have stopped transmitting in an area of moor in the northern Monadhliath Mountains. The latest disappearance involves a two-year-old male that was paired with a […]
Read more → 06 Mar 2018
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The disappearance of two tagged hen harriers from northern England could threaten the survival of the species, experts say. Siblings Manu and Marc were fitted with satellite tags after being born in the Scottish Borders last year. They fledged to northern England, where Manu’s tag stopped transmitting in October. Marc’s ceased on 5 February. The […]
Read more → 28 Feb 2018
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Police are appealing for information after a sparrowhawk was found shot near Knaresborough. The dead female sparrowhawk was found by a member of the public north of the village of Nidd, between Knaresborough and Ripley, with a fresh, bloodied injury, on Sunday 25 February. The results from a subsequent x-ray showed that the bird had […]
Read more → 26 Feb 2018
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Police are investigating the shooting of at least one common buzzard – a legally protected bird of prey – that was found dead in a Suffolk wood. Two buzzard corpses were reported to Suffolk Constabulary’s wildlife crime team in an incident described by naturalists as “appalling and abhorrent.” The bodies were found in woodland known […]
Read more → 23 Feb 2018
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A buzzard which was found illegally shot near Powys has prompted concern by the RSPB and police. The bird was found dead on the ground by a walker near Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant on 10 February, and it was reported to the police. The bird was X-rayed by a local vet and found to contain at least eight […]
Read more → 22 Feb 2018
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An Inverness man was fined £750 for keeping parts of protected species for sale at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday 19th February 2018. Gordon Taylor ran an on-line business under the name “Wild Wizard Crafts” selling products for the shaman and pagan market from an address in Leyton Drive, Inverness. On 4 November 2015, the […]
Read more → 22 Feb 2018
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A property developer and demolition company manager who admitted destroying roosts for protected species of bats have been sentenced at court. Developer Christopher Wilson, of Avante Ltd, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 16 February 2018 after admitting two offences of damaging or destroying a breeding site or resting place of a […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2018
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Police are urging visitors to North Yorkshire’s countryside to get involved with Operation Owl – a new initiative to reduce the number of illegal attacks on birds of prey in the county. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is an offence to intentionally kill, injure or take wild birds. Nevertheless birds of prey (raptors) […]
Read more → 16 Feb 2018
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The disappearance of a golden eagle is [thought to be] “highly suspicious”. It was one of a number of birds tagged last summer. The tag lost signal on 21 January on the outskirts of Edinburgh before it showed up offshore and then disappeared. The golden eagle – named Fred – hatched at a nest in the […]
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