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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
Two Lincolnshire men sentenced under new hare coursing legislation
26 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Dr Aileen McLeod MSP Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform – and chair of PAW Scotland ‘AS THE new chair of the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime Scotland, I am pleased to welcome NFU Scotland as our latest partner organisation. We believe that one of the main difficulties in preventing wildlife crime […]
Read more → 23 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A landowner has been fined £675 over the actions of a gamekeeper who illegally poisoned a buzzard. Ninian Stewart was the first person to be convicted under a new wildlife crime law that means people can be held liable for the actions of employees. Stewart, 66, was the employer of Peter Bell who had previously […]
Read more → 10 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
A man who purchased a haul of endangered animal parts, including chimpanzee skulls, lion claws, and a cheetah skin, has been handed a suspended prison sentence for his part in the illegal trade of endangered wildlife. Peter Prineas, 52, of Orpington, south east London, admitted to buying illegal animal parts, some of which may have […]
Read more → 09 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Border Force and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have won the WWF sponsored Wildlife Crime Operation of the Year Award for their joint efforts to tackle organised wildlife crime in the UK. A representative from the organisations received the award presented by Chief Constable Simon Prince at the ceremony which is held as part of […]
Read more → 05 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Legions of dedicated individuals are deep in the fight to save this majestic creature, the largest of the world’s cats. It’s an animal that faces myriad threats, as all carnivores do, but one factor is largely responsible for their current slide: poaching, driven by the Chinese demand for tiger products. Tigers have had more conservation […]
Read more → 04 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Two men have been charged with trespassing on private land with a firearm, following an incident in Ross-on-Wye last December. At the time of the arrest it was believed the men intended to poach deer from the land. Michael Julian Thomas, 49, of Greenfield Street, Bargoed and David Peter Corbett, 35, of Trosnant Crescent, Penybryn, […]
Read more → 03 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Rural crime officers have mounted a major anti-poaching push in North Wales using the latest crime prediction techniques. At the same time they are targeting a sheep rustling gang which has already snatched 100 Beulah ewes from a Cerrigydrudion farm. Sgt Rob Taylor, of North Wales rural crime team, said another 30 Beulah ewes had […]
Read more → 03 Dec 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Picture the scene. It is the dead of the night, pitch black and not a single person in sight. But then, a group of men pull up in a van armed with a dog and they head into a deserted field. When they get to the middle they pull out a huge lamp, turning […]
Read more → 27 Nov 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Soon-to-be father for a second time around, Prince William, has been one busy man. He and his wife, Kate Middleton plan to head to the US in December, but took care of some business defending wildlife in African jungles earlier this week. “Rangers face grave danger every day,” William to the attendees during a speech […]
Read more → 27 Nov 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“POLICE in Derbyshire are among the best in the country at dealing with wildlife crime, according to a leading charity. World Animal Protection says that some police forces, of which Derbyshire is one, are acting as beacons for best practice while others are taking an ‘inconsistent approach’ to tackling the issue. The charity is calling […]
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