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
07 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Shot buzzard could have suffered for days, say police and RSPB. The wounded bird of prey was found by a member of the public and taken to Larwood and Kennedy Veterinary Practice in Dereham on January 2. An x-ray examination revealed the buzzard had been shot, resulting in the bones in both wings being smashed. […]
Read more → 07 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A wildlife protection group is urging people to look after our feathered friends as the nesting season approaches. The Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Northern Ireland is highlighting National Nest Box Week, which starts next Friday and marks the last opportunity to put up homes for birds.” To read the full article click […]
Read more → 06 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 
Yesterday evening (05/02/2014) the UK Government committed to funding the NWCU until 2016 in its document, ‘UK commitment to Action on the Illegal Wildlife Trade’: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277772/pb14129-commitment-action-illegal-wildlife-trade.pdf In response to the announcement the Association of Chief Police Officers lead on Wildlife and Rural Crime, Chief Constable Simon Prince said: “The National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) has […]
Read more → 06 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“France destroys confiscated ivory worth around €6 million in front of the Eiffel Tower, ahead of a London summit on fighting the illegal wildlife trade. More than three tons of ivory worth around €6 million (£5m) were on Thursday pulverised yards from the Eiffel Tower in a public display of France’s commitment to an international […]
Read more → 04 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Rare iguanas that had been stuffed into socks were seized after officers stopped two Romanian women arriving from Bahamas Thirteen incredibly rare iguanas that had been stuffed into socks by smugglers have been seized by customs at Heathrow airport. The endangered lizards were found in a suitcase on Monday at Terminal 5 of the London […]
Read more → 03 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “A Swedish man has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing thousands of nests of eggs including large quantities from protected species of bird. The verdict was handed down at the Ångermanland district court in northern Sweden where the 47-year-old was found guilty of hunting and aggravated species protection offences. During one sweep […]
Read more → 03 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“The CITES Secretariat is pleased to make available today the logo created to celebrate the first World Wildlife Day (3 March 2014) as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. We welcome all countries, organizations and all interested individuals to make use of the logo in their celebration of the first World Wildlife Day.” To […]
Read more → 27 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Cases of hare coursing in Suffolk have gone down by a third since an operation to target the illegal activity began last year, police have said. There were 300 incidents reported from September 2012 to March last year and officers said that figure had gone down this winter. Suffolk Police joined Operation Galileo in September. […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A Battersea man has been fined just £1,375 despite admitting to illegally trading ivory, whale and dolphin bone and marine turtle shell online. Detectives from the Met Police’s Wildlife Crime Unit began investigating Alick Brown, 30, from Worfield Street, Battersea, in May 2012 after Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) raised concerns about two companies. […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Police have identified two boat owners in connection with the death of a baby dolphin that was mowed down in the Camel Estuary last summer. Wildlife Crime officers launched an investigation in July after the juvenile bottlenose dolphin was killed near Padstow.” To read the full article click here SOURCE: This is Cornwall
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