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
12 Feb 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
On Friday 29th January 2016 Mr George Plant of Hallow, Worcestershire appeared before Worcester Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to one charge of destroying the breeding or resting place of Myotis bats. He was fined £1000, and has to pay a victim surcharge of £100 and £135 costs. In 2013 Mr Plant applied for […]
Read more → 29 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
An international falcon smuggler who has previously served a prison sentence in the UK, was sentenced on 28th January 2016, to 4½ years in a Brazilian prison. Jeffrey Lendrum, 54 yrs was detained by officers at Sao Paulo Airport as he headed to United Arab Emirates. Lendrum was found to be in possession of an […]
Read more → 29 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
In December 2012 the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) were contacted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) with a request to provide assistance in an on-going investigation being run in America. As a result of close cooperation with agents from the USFWS, Investigative Support Officers from the NWCU visited a number of reptile […]
Read more → 26 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
“On 22 January 2016, John Michael Ginty, 25, and Marcus Owen Batey, 25, both from Middlesbrough, appeared at Northallerton Magistrates Court. Ginty pleaded guilty to killing a deer at night, under the Deer Act 1991, and hunting a wild mammal with dogs, under the Hunting Act 2004. He received a ten-week custodial sentence, suspended for […]
Read more → 26 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
Amanda Mason of Oxfordshire was convicted on 25th January 2016 at Hammersmith Magistrates Court of selling Ocelot fur cushions at the Olympia Horse Show in London in 2014. She had been warned about selling similar items at previous shows but when she was seen again Sarah Bailey of the Met Police Wildlife Crime Unit reported […]
Read more → 25 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
On 14 January 2016 Father and Son David and James Chambers appeared at Norfolk Magistrates Court in a case brought by the MMO. The court heard how the fishermen were accused of the retention and landing of a Harbour Porpoise contrary to the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (The regulations) Section 41(3). In […]
Read more → 21 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
A joint wildlife crime operation took place in North Devon. On the 20 January 2016, officers from both Avon & Somerset and Devon & Cornwall Police along with staff from Devon and Somerset Trading Standards, Environmental Health and the National Wildlife Crime Unit visited nine premises in the Barnstaple area as part of a wildlife […]
Read more → 18 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
Do you know the laws about photographing wildlife? Recent allegations of photographers disturbing otters, capercaillie, osprey and seals around Scotland during the last 12 months have raised quite a bit of interest in this topic. While police investigation still continues into these incidents – three of which occurred in the spring and summer of 2015 […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2016
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who tried to sell the heads of monkeys and leopards on eBay has been sentenced. George Bush, 63, of Riverdale Road, Erith, south east London, also possessed sexual images of animals, Woolwich Crown Court heard. He was sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for two years. Bush admitted four charges relating to […]
Read more → 18 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Officers conducted a search of a property in Annalong after receiving information that a barn owl was being offered for sale through a social media site. The owl was seized by police during the search on Friday, 18 December 2015. Barn Owls are legislated for under the Wildlife (NI) Order 1985 as amended by the […]
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