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
26 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A man caught hare coursing in East and Midlothian has received the first Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) for the crime in Scotland. Keith Livingston, 54, was also fined £150 for two offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday. The conditions of the Asbo prevent him from entering […]
Read more → 16 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Police teams across Devon and Cornwall are asking for the public’s help to report poachers in rural areas of the region with the launch of the campaign ‘Stop Poaching’. The last few years have shown it is not about the lone poacher taking something home for his larder, but an organised operation where deer, fish […]
Read more → 16 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A Sunderland man has pleaded guilty to four charges of illegally taking rare ring ouzels from the wild. Appearing at Sunderland Magistrates Court on 16th October 2015, Bobby Thompson, of Houghton le Spring , was convicted under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and given a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered to forfeit all […]
Read more → 12 Oct 2015
Posted by NWCU2 
“Rescued from the dinner table: Shocking moment Russian police intercept rare Amur tiger cub being smuggled on black market Police seized a box containing the endangered big cat in Nizhnevartovsk Tiger cub was caught by poachers possibly after its mum had been shot It is likely the cub would have been used […]
Read more → 23 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
In January 2015 Wildlife Crime Officers from Lancashire Police and the National Wildlife Crime Unit executed a search warrant in the Preston area. The warrant was issued under the provisions of the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 and related to the sale furs coats made from the pelts of endangered species, […]
Read more → 17 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A property development company based in Queen’s Park has admitted illegally destroying a bat roost despite being warned twice that they were nesting inside buildings earmarked for demolition. Today (17th Sept) at Hendon Magistrates’ Court, City and Westminster Developments Ltd pleaded guilty to offences under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010. The court […]
Read more → 15 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Wildlife crime is a top priority for police in the north-east. They walk along the banks of the River Dee with their heads down, looking for clues among the pebbles. Suddenly, Constable Mike Whyte stops and crouches down, before waving something in the air. As he and fellow wildlife officer Constable Steve Lafferty make their […]
Read more → 14 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who poached a deer from a field in south London, took it home and slit its throat has been given a seven month suspended sentence. Mian Zeeshan Shahid, 32, from Kenley, south London, was convicted of taking a deer and causing it unnecessary suffering. He had boasted of the killing on a Facebook […]
Read more → 14 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A farm worker has been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to his dog and interfering with a badger sett after police found images on his mobile phone. Carwyn Jenkins’ dog had half its nose missing and injuries to its jaw, Aberystwyth Justice Centre was told. Jenkins, 23, from Llanfarian, Ceredigion, admitted interfering with a sett […]
Read more → 14 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A group of men have appeared in court charged with training dogs to fight and kill wild animals including foxes, badgers and deer. The defendants faced numerous cruelty charges – many relating to fights with their dogs that had caused unnecessary suffering to several protected species. The five men spoke only to confirm their names […]
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