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 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A 24-YEAR-OLD unemployed father has been convicted of badger baiting after RSPCA officers found pictures on his mobile phone. Other photographs of dead deer and a badly injured dog were found on the phone of David Nightingale, of Oakley Walk, Eston, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool Magistrates Court heard. The photographs were discovered when RSPCA inspectors were tipped […]
Read more → 10 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
The biggest shake-up for decades of the laws affecting wildlife and the countryside for decades will mean longer jail terms for the most serious animal welfare offences, if the changes are approved by MPs. But the number of ‘crimes’ involving wildlife should come down, with regulation and guidance taking the place of sanctions under criminal […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
A 24 year old man from Burnley has pleaded guilty to four charges relating to the prohibited trade in endangered species. In October 2014, Wildlife Crime Officers from Lancashire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit executed a search warrant at the home address of Aaron Halstead a taxidermy dealer from Glen View Road, Burnley. […]
Read more → 05 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Scottish Natural Heritage has placed licence restrictions on four properties over “clear evidence” of wildlife crime against birds of prey. The move follows a Police Scotland investigation into poisoning and the illegal use of traps at the properties in Stirlingshire and the Borders. General licences allow land managers to carry out actions which would otherwise […]
Read more → 02 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A gamekeeper has been convicted of snaring offences which left a badger caught on an electric fence by its head. George Allan, from Skene in Aberdeenshire, was fined £600 when he appeared for sentencing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Tuesday 2nd November 2015. The 61-year-old previously pled guilty to setting a snare, failing to inspect […]
Read more → 01 Nov 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Six former police officers with over 150 years of policing experience between them have been appointed by the Angling Trust to help in the fight against fisheries crime. The new Regional Enforcement Managers will advise anglers on the law, raise awareness that poaching and fish theft are criminal offences, and work with the police, Environment […]
Read more → 29 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
Liana Baker, 21 yrs of Central Avenue, Bury and her father Alan Baker aged 61 years of Peel Street, Accrington, appeared at Bury Magistrates Court today (29/10/2015), where they were sentenced for two offences relating to the possession and offering for sale of two wild peregrine falcons. The pair had pleaded guilty to all charges […]
Read more → 26 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Many of Northern Ireland’s native species are under threat of wildlife crime, according to a new campaign which has been launched. ‘Watch out for Wildlife Crime’ is a Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime (PAW NI) campaign to encourage everyone to get serious about all forms of wildlife crime and help to prevent it. It […]
Read more → 26 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
North Wales Police are spearheading a national campaign to clamp down on badger baiting. The campaign, called Operation Badger, is launched this week to target criminals and raise awareness. The Force says the cruel act of illegal badger digging, still occurs every week throughout the UK. Sergeant Rob Taylor, who heads the North Wales Police […]
Read more → 26 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
In support of Wildlife Crime Awareness Week, Chief Inspector Martin Sims – Head of the National Wildlife Crime Unit – comes to World Animal Protection UK offices to answer the public’s questions on wildlife crime in the UK. Summary of live Twitter Q&A here.
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