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
18 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Pangolins, the world’s most illegally trafficked mammal, were thrown a lifeline at a global wildlife summit in September 2016 with a total trade ban in all species. More than a million wild pangolins have been killed in the last decade, to feed the huge and rising appetite in China and Vietnam for its meat and […]
Read more → 18 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Today the NWCU are joining animal lovers all over the world to celebrate one of the most unusual animals in the world: the pangolin! Pangolins are scale-covered, ant-eating mammals known for their body-length tongues and the ability to roll up into an impenetrable ball when threatened. But while pangolins are great at defending against lion […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
The SIXTH annual World Pangolin Day will be celebrated on 18 February 2017! See: http://www.pangolins.org/world-pangolin-day/ World Pangolin Day is an opportunity for pangolin enthusiasts to join together in raising awareness about these unique mammals — and their plight. Pangolin numbers are rapidly declining in Asia and Africa. The demand for pangolins comes mostly from China, […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
A man has been convicted for killing a duck in Richmond upon Thames. Robert Muir, 49, (03.04.1967) of Sandycombe Road, Richmond upon Thames, was found guilty of one count of killing a wild Mallard duck contrary to S1(1)(a) Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 30 January. He will be sentenced […]
Read more → 17 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
New RSPB report shows illegal killing of birds of prey is still unacceptably common with 196 reports of shooting and destruction of birds of prey and 50 reports of wildlife poisoning and pesticide related offences across the UK in 2015. The charity believes tougher legislation and enforcement is essential if birds of prey are to […]
Read more → 09 Feb 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
This fur coat was seized after it was found to be a real, illegal wildcat pelt. The coat is made from the pelt of a leopardus Geoffroyi – or Geoffroy’s Cat – which is native to South America. It has the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). […]
Read more → 30 Jan 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
Alan Rennie and Barry Shaw, aged 31 and 26 respectively and both from Edinburgh, pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 25th January 2017 to two charges under Section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The Court heard that on 26th April 2016 at an address near Edinburgh Park, Shaw alighted from a […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2017
Posted by NWCU4
Three men have been sentenced (Wednesday 18 January) in connection with hare coursing crimes in the Lothians and Scottish Borders. The men pled guilty to a total of six charges, which took place between December 2015 and February 2016, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 19 December 2016. Niall Purves, now 36, of Edinburgh was convicted of […]
Read more → 18 Jan 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
A ‘prolific’ trader in illegal animal specimens who sold pickled lizards and monkey heads on eBay has been jailed following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Daniel Stocks, who ran a legitimate website selling artificial shrunken heads, used eBay to sell taxidermy specimens under the brand name Killer Curios UK. The 42-year-old, from […]
Read more → 05 Jan 2017
Posted by NWCU4 
He has dangled from helicopters and abseiled down cliffs in search of falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients. Jeffrey Lendrum even tried to dupe customs officials at Birmingham airport into believing that his stolen contraband was hen eggs from a supermarket and that he had strapped them to his chest as a cure for back […]
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