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 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A 29-year-old woman has been charged with trading in endangered species after parts of a tiger were found in a property in Sheffield. South Yorkshire Police said tiger claws and teeth were recovered from a property in the city.” To read the full article click here Source: BBC news
Read more → 25 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Teams of people are coming to Gloucestershire to illegally fish for eels in the Rivers Severn and Avon, the Environment Agency said. The agency said night patrols had found groups on the river banks between midnight and 06:00 BST taking fish by rod and line for commercial resale.” To read the full article click here […]
Read more → 25 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Five people have been charged after wild boar were released during a burglary at a farm in Bridgend county. More than 40 of the animals were released from their pen following a break-in at Llangynwyd, near Maesteg, on 27 April this year.” To read the full article click here Source: BBC news
Read more → 25 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A protected bird of prey that became a “tourist attraction” in Londonderry may have been poisoned, police have said. They are investigating after a peregrine falcon was found dead in the grounds of St Columb’s Cathedral. The bird was a regular feature at the church, with parishioners reporting falcon sightings every year for approximately five […]
Read more → 23 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Members of the public are being asked for help in a crackdown on the illegal hunting of Exmor’s red deer. A free public seminar is being held next month as part of the Exmoor Rural Crime Initiative on the subject of poaching. It follows the formation of the initiative earlier this year and a further […]
Read more → 23 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “On Sunday Harrow Lodge Park volunteers, in the east London borough of Havering, discovered hundreds of dead fish, washed up and floating in the shallows of the large lake, which is fed by the River Ravensbourne. Tom Waller, 61, who discovered the dead fish, described the scene as “upsetting.” Havering Council’s clean-up operation was launched […]
Read more → 18 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU2 
Two men have been charged with illegal cockling after an all-night surveillance operation in the Dee Estuary Three sacks containing around a hundred kilos of cockles were seized during the operation at Greenfield in Flintshire, by Natural Resources Wales enforcement officers and North Wales Police. The two men charged are aged 30 and 26 and […]
Read more → 17 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU2 
Police and Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement carried out a joint raid on one of Cambridgeshire’s coarse fisheries Operation ‘Vulcan’ involved 15 officers from Cambridgeshire police and the Environment Agency carrying out searches on site for alleged offences under the Theft Act, Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act and the Import of Live Fish Act. Operation Vulcan […]
Read more → 16 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU2 
A North Wales man was given a suspended jail sentence after admitting to using his dog to hunt a fox and fight other animals. William Clive Alun Jones was sentenced to 30 days in prison, suspended for 12 months, and fined £120 at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The 26-year-old admitted to the charge of […]
Read more → 14 Sep 2014
Posted by NWCU2 DUE to the lack of black rhinos, mountain gorillas and giant pandas it may come as a surprise to discover that there are three police officers whose job it is to protect animals in Crawley. But while the town’s wildlife may not be endangered, it doesn’t mean that crimes you would normally associate with the […]
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