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
22 Dec 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
William Adams aged 64 years of Great Orton, Cumbria has pleaded guilty to uprooting and trading wild plant bulbs. Since 2014 residents of Dalston Village, Cumbria notice large numbers of wild plants were going missing from local woodland. On several occasions witnesses saw a man fitting Adams’s description digging in the area, some witness actually […]
Read more → 06 Dec 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who tried to sell tiger body parts from his home in Fife has been given a community payback order. Gary Whyte’s property in Cowdenbeath was searched after wildlife officers were told of tiger claws being put up for sale on an online auction site. The 50-year-old was convicted under the Control of Trade […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2016
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A pensioner was fined £4,700 after being found with hundreds of protected bird eggs. William Beaton, 73, from Devon, admitted stealing eggs from across the country. He pleaded guilty to taking Barn owl eggs in Norfolk and the eggs of other protected birds in Orkney. Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard he was found in possession of […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Chief Inspector Martin Sims, the head of Britain’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, has dedicated his career to the fight against the illegal animal trade – currently valued by the UN at $23bn a year. The unit is regarded as one of the most elite in the world, and last month Chief Inspector Sims became only […]
Read more → 07 Nov 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
The illegal persecution of Badgers is a UK wildlife crime priority, due to the sheer volume of crime against badgers. The Badger Trust as part of the UK Strategic response to badger crime across the UK is supporting and leading a proactive Twitter week to highlight the continued plight of the badger against illegal persecution […]
Read more → 04 Nov 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
More than 100 freshwater pearl mussels have been found dead at a river south of Lochinver in the Highlands. Police Scotland said the mussels had been taken from the river’s bed and the shells opened to see if there was a pearl inside. The 113 dead mussels were found during a survey for the protected […]
Read more → 03 Nov 2016
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A 32-year-old man from Portsmouth has been sentenced to 1 years imprisonment suspended for 2 years for the illegal sale and export of elephant ivory from the UK. Chao XI from Portsmouth, Hampshire appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates Court on Thursday 3rd November where he pleaded guilty to two charges under the Control of Trade in […]
Read more → 31 Oct 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
#Stoppoachinguk It is about this time of year between now and Christmas that landowners see a rise in the blight of poachers entering their land. Gone are the days of the merry country rogue, the poacher today can be armed with weapons and dogs, use intimidation and violence and are in it for greed and […]
Read more → 19 Oct 2016
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Chief Inspector Martin Sims, Head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, has been honoured with the prestigious Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award for “leadership of one of the world’s most outstanding police units dedicated to combating wildlife crime”. Ch Insp Sims received the award, presented by the U.S. based Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) […]
Read more → 13 Oct 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
Cumbria Constabulary has become the latest police force to sign up to Operation LEVIATHAN – the multi-agency initiative tackling fish theft and illegal fishing. The commitment creates an important link with other police forces in the North West and provides a huge boost to the fight against fish poaching in the county, which has led […]
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