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
23 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 “Customs officials in Bulgaria have seized two million live baby eels hidden in luggage. Two Chinese men arriving from Madrid were detained at Sofia airport for trying to smuggle the eels in eight containers. Officials said that the tiny eels, known as elvers, had been declared as food items. The European eel is classified as […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Four people from the Rotherham area are due to appear at court tomorrow on badger-baiting charges. Antonio Miguel Alonso-Brown (22), Connor Alan Podmore (19), Liam Darren Swift (22) and Nathan Swift (20), will appear before North East Derbyshire and Dales Magistrates’ Court, in Chesterfield. They have been summonsed for offences related to allegations of hunting […]
Read more → 19 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“In an effort to tackle wildlife crime Magherafelt PSNI have carried out a number of searches. The local Neighbourhood Policing Team, as part of their investigations into a number of poisoning incidents, searched targetted areas in south Derry on Tuesday. Sergeant Sam Young said it was matter the police took very seriously and appealed to […]
Read more → 17 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A man from Whitley Wood has been charged with three others in connection with offences committed under the Hunting Act. The four were arrested on October 26, last year, near Bury Lane, West Ilsley after a gamekeeper spotted men on his land with lurcher dogs and believed them to be hare coursing. John Light, 34, […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A team from Dundee has been able to recover fingerprints from the feathers of birds of prey, which are under threat from illegal poisoning, shooting and trapping. If the birds have been handled, the incriminating marks could help police to identify the suspect. The research is published in the journal Science and Justice. The RSPB’s […]
Read more → 13 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A zoo owner has been fined and banned from owning animals after admitting keeping various birds and animals in squalid conditions. Peter Lockhart, 50, was the co-owner of the Fife Animal Park, near Cupar, which closed in February 2014 after its owners were unable to sell it. At Dundee Sheriff Court, Lockhart admitted failing to […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 “Game shooting is important to the rural economy, but a recent court decision highlighted the need for such activities to be appropriately managed. The offence of criminal vicarious liability for certain wildlife offences has been enshrined in Scots Law since its introduction in January 2012. Late last year, for the first time, an estate owner […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A gamekeeper found guilty of killing a rare bird and setting traps illegally to capture others has been jailed for four months. George Mutch, 48, of Kildrummy, denied recklessly killing or injuring a goshawk and illegally taking away another goshawk and a buzzard in 2012. Mutch was found guilty of four charges at Aberdeen Sheriff […]
Read more → 06 Jan 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Two Kirkby men admitted digging down to snare young badgers in the countryside to train terriers to attack them, a court heard. William Chrystal, 24 and Leighton David Shiers, 18, were caught with shovels, walkie talkies and were wearing camouflage jackets at a well-known underground sett in north Wales when police pounced. Three more of […]
Read more → 30 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A dedicated Special Constabulary team has been launched to support Cambridgeshire police’s Rural Crime Team. The newly formed Rural Specials Team will provide county-wide, intelligence-lead, dedicated rural patrols. Creating a direct link between Cambridgeshire’s rural communities and the police service via the Special Constabulary, the new team will also provide visible reassurance to remote communities […]
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