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 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU6 “TEENAGER Aaron Christiansen has created an app for reporting poaching as part of Project Poacher, a new national campaign to combat wildlife crime. The 15-year-old’s app, created in his spare time, makes it easy to use a mobile phone to report to the police suspicious activities that might be linked to poaching. The app can […]
Read more → 08 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Police launch investigation after carcass of animal is found on riverbank It’s one of our most beloved mammals – but this otter was found with its neck caught in the jaws of a trap at the weekend. Police are investigating a possible wildlife crime after the discovery of the carcass on the banks of the […]
Read more → 08 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Four barn owls have been seized by police following a search operation in the Craigavon area Officers conducted a search of a property in Lurgan on Saturday after it was reported that barn owls were being held and sold over the internet. To hold a barn owl you must apply for a licence from the […]
Read more → 08 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU4 Border Force and the NWCU have won the WWF sponsored 2015 Wildlife Crime Operation of the Year Award for their outstanding contribution towards Operation Cobra 3 which specifically targetted the illegal wildlife trade. Samantha Trackman (Border Force) and Helen Bulmer (NWCU) are pictured here being presented with their award by Chief Constable Simon Prince during […]
Read more → 08 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
A 24 year old taxidermy dealer has been jailed today (7th December 2015) for a total of 24 weeks at Burnley Crown Court. Aaron William Halstead of Glen View Road, Burnley was sentenced to 4 consecutive sentences of 6 weeks (total 24 weeks) for 4 offences contrary to the Control in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations […]
Read more → 01 Dec 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A self-employed game farmer has pled guilty to wildlife offences, leading to the second conviction in Scotland by vicarious liability for wildlife crime against wild birds. At Stirling Sheriff Court, Graham Christie was fined a total of £3,200 after admitting his liability for the crimes committed by James O’Reilly, a gamekeeper employed by him. O’Reilly […]
Read more → 24 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A £1,000 reward has been offered after a rare falcon was shot and killed in Cambridgeshire in a “sickening” attack. Cambridgeshire Police, the National Wildlife Crime Unit and the RSPB are appealing for anyone with information about the shooting of a rare red-footed falcon to come forward after the body of the protected bird of […]
Read more → 19 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
West Mercia Police are appealing to the public for information after it was confirmed that a peregrine falcon found dead in a quarry in Clee Hill, Shropshire had been poisoned. There have been previous problems in this area with two peregrines poisoned in 2010 and another in 2011. Over the last few years the Shropshire […]
Read more → 19 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Call for entry for the International Elephant Film Festival Geneva/Jackson, WY, 18 November 2015 – The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) have teamed up in organizing an International Elephant Film Festival to raise global awareness of the […]
Read more → 16 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
It is with great pleasure that I, Chief Insp Martin Sims, Head of the National Wildlife Crime Unit, can announce that, as of Monday the 2nd of November, PC Alun Bradshaw from Cambridgeshire Police and Sergeant Andy Whysall from Avon and Somerset Police joined the National Wildlife Crime Unit for a 3 month attachment. This […]
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