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
25 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Police have launched an investigation after illegal crayfish traps were found at a popular tourist spot. A council ranger discovered four of the devices near Galloway Sailing Centre at Loch Ken on Friday. Wildlife crime co-ordinator Inspector David McCallum said: “Illegal traps pose a danger to other wildlife. “These ones were held down with lifting […]
Read more → 25 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A local student action group based at Newquay’s Cornwall College has been training wildlife crime police officers ahead of the introduction of a new law to curb the spread of invasive plant species. A new legislation is being introduced across the European Union in an attempt to stop the spread of invasive species, like Japanese Knotweed. […]
Read more → 16 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU1 
Head of Unit for the National Wildlife Crime Unit Rank: Inspector/Detective Inspector Location: Livingston, Edinburgh. (Pending location change in the Edinburgh area) Duration: 2 years secondment Closing Date: 4th May 2014 The main role of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) is to assist in the prevention and detection of wildlife crime. The […]
Read more → 14 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A TOWN police team is winning the fight against countryside crime in its outlying areas but insists the battle goes on. Officers in Ferryhill have seen a reduction in the number of incidents of wildlife crime such as poaching in the last year. But PCSO Craig Hilton, who covers Chilton, Windlestone and Rushyford, aims to […]
Read more → 14 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “A specialist training course which saw Lancashire police officers join forces with their neighbours to tackle wildlife crime has been praised by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner. Lancashire Constabulary and Cumbria Police joined forces to deliver specialist training to 30 wildlife crime officers from both forces at Lancashire’s Hutton headquarters, with support from the […]
Read more → 10 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Just past the very inquisitive meerkats, up the hill beyond the café and around the corner from the snuffling warty pigs, is a wall and a door. It’s at the very edge of Edinburgh Zoo – walk any further and you’ll be strolling up Kaimes Road – and the door’s bland, tattered appearance suggests what […]
Read more → 08 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Some online postings have appeared over the last few days which make allegations of improper conduct regarding an on-going investigation into a poisoned Peregrine Falcon found in Lanarkshire in February this year. NWCU are supporting Police Scotland in their investigation of this poisoning incident, which was reported by a member of the public. Formal operational procedures have […]
Read more → 03 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Two women have been jailed for a year following the seizure of 13 endangered iguanas at Heathrow. Romanian nationals Angla-Alina Bita, 26, and Vitora-Oliva Bucsa, 24, were arrested after the animals were found by Border Force officers carrying out customs checks at Heathrow Terminal 5 on Monday 3 February. They had arrived on a […]
Read more → 03 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
The United Kingdom played a major part in the success of Project PREDATOR and Operation PREY in particular. This was based upon three elements coordinated by the National Wildlife Crime Unit: 1. Operation PREY: 21st May-1st June 2012: Nepal The UK was invited to support one of the Tiger range states taking part in the […]
Read more → 03 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
“Lyon, France – A new INTERPOL report has underlined the need for greater operational and investigative responses to the highly lucrative illicit tiger trade if the species is to avoid extinction. With both small-scale opportunistic criminals and organized crime networks using constantly changing tactics and more innovative and sophisticated methods to avoid detection, the report […]
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