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2025-2028 NPCC Wildlife & Rural Crime Strategy
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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
07 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
The National Theft Register reports that during the last two years there has been an ever developing series of small bird thefts where thieves are targeting the breeders of quality exhibition Budgerigars, Canaries and Finches. In recent months the pattern continues with over 40 separate burglaries comprising of hundreds of birds valued at many thousands […]
Read more → 07 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU2 
A hero Angus lifeboat coxswain has clung on to his position despite admitting illegally poaching fish. Thomas Mark Yule, 42, from David’s Hill, St Vigeans, Arbroath, was fined £300 by a sheriff on Thursday but he won’t face additional sanctions from the RNLI. Yule pleaded guilty at Arbroath Sheriff Court to breaching the Salmon and […]
Read more → 03 Mar 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
“World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people. At the same time, the Day reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime, which has […]
Read more → 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 […]
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