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
23 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Last night (22/1), the wildlife officer for Aylesbury, PC Dean Kingham, led a deer poaching operation using low light equipment. The operation came after the England and Wales Poaching Priority Delivery Group launched a national campaign titled Project Trespass on the 1 October 2013. The aim of Project Trespass is to coordinate a response to […]
Read more → 22 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“LYON, France – South Africa has requested INTERPOL Purple Notices in order to locate two vessels whose operators are suspected of illegal fishing and of subjecting their crews to labour and human rights abuses. The two fishing vessels, Samudera Pasific No 8 and Berkat Menjala No 23, were among a fleet of 10 arrested by […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“From urban foxes to endangered eels and the illegal traffic in protected species, London is an unlikely location for a wide variety of wildlife crime. Now, for the first time in the capital’s history, WSPA has joined forces with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to deliver London’s first multi-agency enforcement seminar aimed […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “January is typically a time of year when poaching, offences against wildlife and other forms of rural crime dramatically increase, but, this year, police in East Yorkshire are getting tough on the perpetrators. The Humberside Police force has launched a crackdown – named Operation Zephyr – aimed at disrupting and preventing illegal activity in rural areas […]
Read more → 17 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Poachers killing animals at record rate, sparking fear of demise of entire population within 20 years. More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa last year at a record-breaking rate that marked a jump of 50% on the year before. The environment ministry said 1,004 animals were killed in 2013, up from 668 in […]
Read more → 16 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Scotland Yard has pledged to continue funding its specialist wildlife crime unit to tackle growing links with organised gangs. Senior officers say criminals are making huge profits from trafficking the products of endangered species such as powdered rhino horn, which is now said to be more expensive than cocaine. The future of the five-strong wildlife […]
Read more → 15 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “A resolution by the European Parliament calls for tougher penalties for wildlife crimes and more training for law enforcement officials to combat the trafficking of illegal items such as elephant ivory and rhino horn. In a resoundingly affirmative vote Wednesday afternoon, the parliament also called for a mandatory destruction of illegal ivory stockpiles, a symbolic […]
Read more → 15 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “People who buy meat on the black market could be putting their health at risk, Trading Standards officers have warned. Products bought from illegitimate sources may have been poached, with the risk the meat has not been handled hygienically and could even be contaminated by veterinary drugs. Lancashire County Council Trading Standards and district council […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Three members of an east Belfast family have admitted animal cruelty offences described by the police and USPCA as among the most serious they have seen. Jeremiah Kirkwood, 43, and sons Chris, 23, and Wayne, 20, of Island Street, admitted keeping animals for fighting. They also pleaded guilty to having equipment in connection with animal […]
Read more → 14 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“On 1 April 2013, during Operation CLAMP DOWN, targeting illegal angling during the coarse close season, Voluntary Bailiffs of the Voluntary Bailiff Service’s Angling Watch 3 were patrolling the River Thames at King’s Meadow, Reading, with Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officer Mick Cox. During this patrol, what appeared to be illegal set lines were found […]
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