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
30 May 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Christie’s have admitted to “an honest and genuine mistake” by putting up for sale an ivory and kutch silver trophy that contravened CITES regulations. The auctioneers said it was “an isolated incident” and confirmed to ATG that they have robust training programme in place to identify illegal ivory that is regularly reviewed. Although more than […]
Read more → 16 May 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Three birds of prey have died in County Antrim after being poisoned, the police have said. A peregrine falcon and two buzzards were found dead in March and April. The falcon was found at a quarry on the Glenhead Road in Ballymena on 11 April. It was discovered to have been poisoned by a pesticide […]
Read more → 12 May 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
An antiques dealer has been fined £930 for selling crocodile and monkey skulls before doing his research. John McCabe, of Sedge Drove in Ten Mile Bank, pleaded guilty to selling a specimen of a saltwater crocodile, three specimens of crab-eating Macaque – a species of monkey – and possessing cannabis. King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court heard […]
Read more → 11 May 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
A HAMILTON auctioneering firm have been fined £1500 for offering elephant ivory for sale. LS Smellie and Son Ltd, of Lower Auchingramont Road, had admitted a charge under Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations. The company had advertised for sale three lots of ivory on their website, all of which included elephant tusks. Police […]
Read more → 29 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Wildlife officers from Cumbria Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit investigating the disappearance of wild plants from the Cumbria countryside have executed a search warrant at a house in Great Orton, Cumbria (28/04/2016). As a result of the search, the officers seized around 5000 wild Snowdrop bulbs and lesser numbers of Bluebells and Wild […]
Read more → 29 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4
A 56 year old woman from Thornaby, Cleveland has received a caution for buying and selling derivatives of endangered species, including tiger claws. Officers from the National Wildlife Crime Unit identified a trader on Ebay who appeared to be selling tiger claws without the required permits. The seller was subsequently identified. On 18th April 2016 officers […]
Read more → 29 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4
Keith Mingins aged 58 yrs of Main Street, Firzington, Cumbria appeared at Workington Magistrates Court today (29/04/2015), where he pleaded guilty to the illegal storage of the banned pesticide Carbofuran. Carbofuran was previously used in agriculture as an insecticide, but it lost its approval for use and has been banned since 2001. Keith Mingins keeps […]
Read more → 27 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Wildlife crime officers from Hampshire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit investigating the illegal trade in endangered species seized a number of items originating from protected species in a house in the Eastleigh area of Hampshire. Officers had identified a man who was trading illegally on the Internet and as a result they executed […]
Read more → 26 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Investigative Support Officer Ian Guildford from the NWCU together with Guy Clarke from the UK Border Force CITES team, based at Heathrow, recently attended Malawi to deliver training as part of a project being run by RSPCA International, the project ‘Developing Law enforcement Capability in Malawi to Combat Wildlife Crime’ is funded by the UK […]
Read more → 07 Apr 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Peter Fraser 67 years of Bardsey Place, Longbenton appeared at North Tyneside Magistrates Court yesterday (06/04/2016) where he pleaded guilty to fraud by misrepresentation and 7 offences contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997. The offences all related to the illegal trade in birds’ eggs. In November 2015 the National […]
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