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
09 May 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
A shop owner who built up a collection of endangered species, including a turtle shell, a crocodile head and part of a sawfish, has been fined £4,000. Sasko Bezovski, 47 (10.12.68), of Warwick Avenue, Westminster appeared at Hammersmith and Fulham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 19 April. He pleaded guilty to a charge of purchasing, offering […]
Read more → 09 May 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
On Tuesday 11th April 2017 Magistrates sitting at Leamington Spa Court heard a case relating to the destruction of a bat roost. Mr Keith Marchington aged 72 years the owner of the property in question and Mr Samuel John Taylor aged 33 years a builder contracted to renovate the property both pleaded guilty to the […]
Read more → 09 May 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Following the successful launch of Operation Raptor in March 2016 the PSNI have continued to show their commitment to wildlife crime by contributing to a UK initiative named “Peregrine Watch”. Peregrine Watch is an initiative to stop any peregrine persecution and this can include theft of eggs and chicks from nests and/or the killing of […]
Read more → 30 Apr 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
On 7 April 2017, Phillip Cullen, 57, of Cadbury Heath, Bristol, was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Bristol Magistrates Court. On the 16 March 2016, Cullen had been found guilty of six charges contrary to the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 relating to the capturing, killing and possession of […]
Read more → 24 Apr 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Dwaine Tavernor 34 yrs of Knotton Road, Sheffield has pleaded guilty possessing a wild Tawny owl at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 8th March 2017. Police visited Tavernor’s home on 4th September 2016 where they found a Tawny owl which was wearing a leg ring indicating that it was bird that had been lawfully bred in […]
Read more → 23 Mar 2017
Posted by NWCU4
Dwaine Tavernor 34 yrs of Knotton Road, Sheffield has pleaded guilty to possessing a wild Tawny owl at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 8th March 2017. Police visited Tavernor’s home on 4th September 2016 where they found a Tawny owl which was wearing a leg ring indicating that it was bird that had been lawfully bred […]
Read more → 16 Mar 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Butterfly Conservation welcomed the prosecution of a collector found guilty of illegally catching and killing the UK’s rarest butterfly. Phillip Cullen, 57, from Cadbury Heath, Bristol, was convicted at Bristol Magistrates Court of deliberately capturing and killing Large Blue butterflies on two occasions at nature reserves in Somerset and Gloucestershire in 2015. The globally endangered […]
Read more → 12 Mar 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
After a successful call for hen harrier sightings last year, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Heads Up for Harriers project are once more asking people to report sightings of this special bird. Hen harriers remain one of Scotland’s rarest and most spectacular birds of prey. The Heads Up for Harriers Project wants to hear […]
Read more → 03 Mar 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed 3 March, the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as UN World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The UNGA […]
Read more → 23 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU6 
A 23-year-old man who admitted three charges of causing unnecessary cruelty to three of his five dogs, has been jailed for three months and ordered to pay kenneling costs of £14,000. Michael Stephen Conwell, from Slievebuoy Park in Claudy, also received a lifetime ban against keeping pet dogs, the Magistrates court in Derry heard yesterday. […]
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