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
12 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A 28-year-old woman has been arrested following the recovery of tiger claws and teeth from an address in Gleadless Road, Sheffield. Â Wildlife Crime Officers from South Yorkshire Police and members of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit searched the house on Monday (9 June) and made the discovery. Â She was arrested on suspicion of Prohibited […]
Read more → 10 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Hong Kong, 10th June 2014—Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested 15 passengers aboard a flight from Angola after a total of 790 kg was found in baggage aboard the plane. The 15 passengers—all reportedly Vietnamese citizens—had flown from Angola via Ethiopia and were travelling onward to Cambodia via South Korea. They were stopped during a […]
Read more → 09 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “#WhoseSideAreYouOn aims to use the power of sport and social media to stigmatise buying of ivory and rhino horn David Beckham and Prince William launched a campaign to help stigmatise the buying of ivory and rhino horn on Monday. “Our children should not live in a world without elephants, tigers, lions and rhinos. Enough is […]
Read more → 09 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A major and indiscriminate fish kill on an East Lothian river last week has prompted condemnation from the police and local and national fisheries organisations. [Several] very large sea trout – ranging between 4 lb and 12 lb – were found dead in a poacher’s net on the River Tyne, near East Linton. The net […]
Read more → 07 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “After an ecological disaster in India, wildlife groups call for ban on vets using diclofenac in Italy and Spain. Wildlife groups have launched a Europe-wide campaign to outlaw a newly approved veterinary drug that has caused the deaths of tens of millions of vultures in Asia. They say that the decision to allow diclofenac to […]
Read more → 06 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
One year on the NWCU website has gone from strength to strength. It explains what wildlife crime is, details the role of the unit, how tackling different wildlife crime across the UK is prioritised and how users can report wildlife crime. It highlights the sort of information users can provide to help combat such crime, […]
Read more → 05 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Shanghai, China, May 2014—Representatives from several leading traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) companies have formally renounced the use of endangered plants and animals protected by national and international legislation in medicinal products at a meeting held last month in Shanghai. Several famous TCM doctors and experts also strengthened their firm commitment not to use parts from […]
Read more → 04 Jun 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A special event has been help to deal with increasing concerns about the level of bat crime in Cornwall. Cornwall Bat Group, a group within the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, funded a training session for police wildlife crime officers in Cornwall, an event jointly hosted with the Devon Bat Group at Roadford Reservoir. There police officers […]
Read more → 29 May 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Poachers, fire-starters and animal poisoners are among the targets of the Quantocks’ new wildlife crime officer. PC Rob Jacobs has just completed a Wildlife Crime Officers’ course in Hampshire and he’s now equipped to tackle crimes against animals. PC Jacobs said: “There’s not a whole lot of wildlife crime reported in Sedgemoor but that’s because […]
Read more → 17 May 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Poachers are in the sights of a new group launched to tackle rural crime on Exmoor. An increase in deer poaching has sparked concern from the Exmoor National Park Authority, which is already in regular contact with Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall police. Now, other agencies with an interest in protecting the natural […]
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