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
02 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Chatham House is assessing the scale and effectiveness of the response to illegal logging and the related trade around the world. Six new countries have been assessed for the project, reports on an additional 3 producer (Democratic Republic of Congo, Papua New Guinea and Republic of Congo), 1 processing (Thailand) and 2 consumer (India and […]
Read more → 02 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
Lancashire and Cumbria Police recently joined forces to train up 30 Wildlife Crime Officers. Officers from both forces attended a week long course at Lancashire Police HQ, where they received specialist training on a wide range wildlife crime topics, including ‘Illegal Trade in Endangered Species’, ‘Badgers’, Birds and the Law’, ‘Poaching and Traps’, ‘Poisons and […]
Read more → 01 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“The number of birds of prey found dead within a two-mile area has now risen to 16. Four buzzards and 12 red kites have been found in the last two weeks near Conon Bridge in the Highlands. The RSPB described the number as “shocking” and has now put up a £5,000 reward for information relating […]
Read more → 01 Apr 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Land owner fined for failing to maintain a County Wildlife Site in the Lake District Richard Whitton a farmer from Allithwaite, Grange-over-Sands was yesterday (31/03/14) fined by Magistrates in Kendal for failing to comply with a land ‘Remediation Notice’, issued under the Environmental Impact Agriculture Regulations 2006, for the Miller Beck County Wildlife Site near […]
Read more → 29 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 A man has been charged with offences from the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Hasan Fidan, 46 from Bridge Close, Tonbridge was arrested by officers from the Rural Partnership Team on 28 March. He has been charged with two counts of killing a wild bird and theft of a wild animal. He has been bailed to […]
Read more → 27 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “On Tuesday, 25 March at a Borough Wildlife Officer Training Day held at ZSL London Zoo, Police Constable Anthony Kiddle received this award for the second time, having previously been awarded it in 2012. This annual event is contested between the Met’s 32 borough Wildlife Crime officers and is sponsored by the World Society for […]
Read more → 26 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
“The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) celebrates the start of its fifth decade this month. It is the oldest international environmental agreement and one of the few with real teeth, because it can impose trade sanctions for non-compliance—and because virtually all countries have joined. The mission of […]
Read more → 25 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Police Officers in Highland and Islands Division are currently carrying out enquiries following the discovery of six birds of prey in the Conon Bridge/Muir of Ord area, Ross-shire. The birds – five red kites and one buzzard – were found at various locations in that area between Monday 17 March and Monday 24 March 2014.” […]
Read more → 19 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU2 A dead sparrowhawk with gunshot injuries was discovered by a couple out walking along Brisley Road in Whissonsett, near Fakenham, on February 16. A week later another couple heard shooting while walking in Narford Wood near Swaffham, and found a dying buzzard which had been shot. Source : EDP24 To read article click here
Read more → 19 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 Â The illegal catching and killing of birds for aviaries, human consumption or taxidermy is common practice within EU member states. The European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) is an international non-profit association set up in 1992 as an informal Network of European regulators and authorities concerned with the implementation […]
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