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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
18 Dec 2022
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Warwickshire Hunt has been served with a three-year notice from police amid concerns about dangers on roads. Warwickshire Rural Crime Team has revealed that it served Community Protection Notice (CPN) to Warwickshire Hunt Limited. This notice will be in place for three years and, if conditions are breached, it could lead to criminal action. The […]
Read more → 15 Dec 2022
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A man has been fined more than £1000 after a joint investigation by Rural Crime teams uncovered messages which showed him bragging and admitting to the illegal hunting of foxes. The investigation saw John Oliver Finnegan, aged 37 and of Northwich in Cheshire, plead guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on 6th December 2022 to hunting […]
Read more → 04 Nov 2022
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Two men have been in court after being caught illegally fishing by setting up a net across a river. Gwent Police, in partnership with Natural Resources Wales, successfully prosecuted Shane HANSON and Dale WALLIS from Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf in connection with the illegal netting of the River Thaw at Aberthaw. The males travelled to […]
Read more → 28 Oct 2022
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Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT) are investigating the suspected poisoning of three birds of prey in the Belchford area of Horncastle. On 4 October 2022, the team conducted multi agency searches in the area along with officers from the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), the RSPB and Natural England. During the searches we […]
Read more → 28 Oct 2022
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A man has been found guilty of illegal hunting after he appeared to “encourage” his dogs to kill a fox. Master of the South Dorset Hunt Mark Pearson denied hunting a wild mammal with a dog but was found guilty at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on 19th October 2022. Pearson, 62, was charged after hunt monitors […]
Read more → 28 Oct 2022
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Two men were caught illegally digging at an active badger sett near Wrexham. A member of the public alerted the police after spotting them on land at Cross Lanes on 30 August 2021. One of the men was lying on his stomach in a large rectangular hole which had been dug into a bank. Two […]
Read more → 25 Oct 2022
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A Weeting gamekeeper admitted shooting and poisoning several birds of prey. Matthew Stroud, age 46, of Fengate in Weeting, appeared at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 5 October 2022 and admitted: Six counts of killing a Common Buzzard Three counts of using poisoned bait One count of intentionally killing a Northern Goshawk One count of possessing […]
Read more → 25 Oct 2022
Posted by NWCU4
21st October 2022: A Cwmbran man has been ordered to pay a total of £279 after being caught fishing on a private stretch of the River Wye without permission or a valid rod licence. In a joint operation between Natural Resources Wales and Gwent Police, Kyle Moses, of Summerhill, Cwmbran, was seen by officers fishing […]
Read more → 18 Oct 2022
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An angler from Essex who fished illegally has been ordered by a court to pay out. The amount to be paid is 40 times the amount of money than if he’d just bought a fishing licence. Daniel Churchman, of Dedham, Essex, was caught fishing during the fishing close season on 14 June 2022 at […]
Read more → 18 Oct 2022
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A man from North Wales who was photographed showing off his severely injured dogs after he used them to illegally bait badgers, has been given a suspended prison sentence. Disturbing images and footage of the dogs, who had significant untreated facial and jaw injuries, were discovered on Philip Stevens’ mobile phone after alleged activities relating to […]
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