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 đŸ¦‡
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
04 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
‘Poached’, a documentary examining the bizarre and illegal ‘hobby’ of egg collecting will be launched at the Cambridge Film Festival. It features interviews with experienced NWCU staff and RSPB investigations staff plus actual egg thieves/former egg thieves. The UK premiere of this unique film will take place at the Cambridge Film Festival on Monday, 7 […]
Read more → 26 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU6 “A taxidermist has appeared in court accused of 10 allegations of buying and selling endangered species. Aaron William Halstead (24) faces allegations brought under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997, after a raid on his Burnley home by police and wildlife officers, the town’s magistrates heard. Halstead, of New Copy Barn, […]
Read more → 13 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Dolphins and other marine life are being “repeatedly harassed” off the Cornwall coast, conservationists said. More than ten reports of “marine wildlife disturbance” were made to Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s hotline in the past week, with many in St Ives. Incidents included bottlenose dolphins being chased by wildlife day trip boats, possibly with their young. Boat […]
Read more → 10 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU2 
“Six suspected tiger poachers have been shot dead in a gunfight with Bangladeshi police at a hideout in the world’s largest mangrove forest. Police seized three tiger pelts which they said were from animals that appeared to be freshly killed. The Sundarbans in south-east Bangladesh are home to the rare Bengal tiger.” Read More
Read more → 04 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“On Wednesday 29th July 2015 Mr Stephen Donald Taylor B26/05/60 of Berrow Green Road, Martley, Worcestershire, appeared before Redditch Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to unlawfully destroying the resting place of European Protected Species (a bat roost). The facts of the case were that in 2014 Mr Taylor purchased a property with a view […]
Read more → 29 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Two men are due to appear in court in Zimbabwe later over the killing of Cecil, the country’s most famous lion. Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu, are charged with poaching offences for not having the required hunting permit. US dentist Walter Palmer shot the animal with a crossbow and rifle outside […]
Read more → 21 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU2 
“A York man whose hobby was snaring wild song birds was caught setting traps by the roadside while going to Seamer Horse Fair, a court heard. Alan Smith, 59, was staying on a site in Gate Helmsley, en route to the fair, when he placed a cage in a nearby hedge.The trap, containing a Goldfinch […]
Read more → 20 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
Officers from the National Wildlife Crime Unit and Cumbria Police executed a search warrant at a house in the Workington area of Cumbria on Friday 17th July 2015. The warrant had been issued under the provisions the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 as a result of evidence gleaned during other investigations […]
Read more → 29 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A gamekeeper has been cleared of trying to trap wild birds, after a judge ruled RSPB video evidence gained by trespassing could not be used in court. District Judge Kevin Grego, at Telford Magistrates’ Court, excluded the covert footage showing Neil Wainwright. Wainwright, of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, was cleared of three counts related to trapping […]
Read more → 26 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A company which sold jewellery made from animal claws has been fined over £2,000. The court heard that police were notified by Westminster Trading Standards that the jewellery was on sale at a concession of Annina Vogel Ltd in the Liberty department store in Regents Street. A Westminster Borough wildlife crime officer attended the location […]
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