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
27 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A man has been sentenced for selling protected animal species, following an investigation by Thames Valley Police. Graham Martin, aged 36, of Furze Platts, Bracknell, was sentenced to a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £265 in costs at Slough Magistrates’ Court on Monday (24/2).” To read the full article click here SOURCE: […]
Read more → 26 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Alan Stewart, who is now working as an intelligence officer with the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, is backing a newly-formed group’s aim to encourage thousands of birdwatchers to “recognise, record and report”. Birders against Wildlife Crime (BAWC) has been formed by five birdwatchers who want to “tip the balance back in the favour of […]
Read more → 25 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“NAIROBI, Kenya – With record levels of global ivory seizures in 2013, a new INTERPOL report highlights the need for greater information sharing to enable a more proactive and effective law enforcement response against trafficking syndicates. The report, produced by INTERPOL’s Environmental Security unit, also highlights the need for increased intelligence analysis in order to […]
Read more → 25 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “An enquiry, which started in the UK in 2009 involving the collecting and trading of wild birds’ eggs, led to the conviction of three Swedish egg collectors on Friday 31 January 2014 after a 23-day trial in the province of Ångermanland, in central Sweden. One of the men was jailed for a year.” Source: RSPB […]
Read more → 24 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “Each year, it is estimated that up to 30,000 primates, five million birds, 10 million reptile skins and 500 million tropical fish are traded. The illegal wildlife trade is only third behind weapons and drugs as the most profitable illegal business in the world. Photographer Patrick Brown has spent a decade traveling the world and […]
Read more → 24 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “Dressed in camouflage and peering around to watch for onlookers, these pictures reveal the moment a gamekeeper was caught in the act setting up illegal traps to snare wild birds on a sprawling country estate. Ryan Waite was captured by RSPB investigators re-setting a spring-loaded pole trap on top of a 6ft tree stump at […]
Read more → 20 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“During an important month for wildlife conservation, Guildhall Chambers environment barrister, Brendon Moorhouse, comments on practical issues relating to criminal prosecutions for wildlife offences in the UK. On the 5th February 2014 the government approved continued funding to the National Wildlife Crime Unit for a further two years. The funding announcement almost coincided with the […]
Read more → 19 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “Criminals are using dogs to kill wild deer and sell the meat in towns across Fife. PC Ian Laing, the region’s wildlife crime officer, said trained dogs are used to chase and attack the animals before the bodies are removed and butchered, often in unsanitary conditions. The illegal hunting of deer is taking place in […]
Read more → 11 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Experts from around the world are gathering in London to discuss “the global crisis” in the wildlife trade. Conservationists say animal trafficking is reaching unprecedented levels and species such as rhinos, elephants and tigers are under threat of extinction.” To read the full article click here AUTHOR: Rebecca Morelle SOURCE: BBC news
Read more → 08 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Of late, conservation has become a word almost as dirty as the fetid waters turning farms into lakes and devastating treasured homes. The notion that protecting the countryside’s wild inhabitants has been done at the expense of people is gathering the same forceful momentum as the Somerset Level’s raging rivers. Hopefully, the constructive work of […]
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