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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
29 Apr 2022
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Police have advised dog walkers to keep their pets on a lead in a forest in case they are poisoned. Dorset Police said a dead buzzard was found in the Ashmore area of Dorset, though its cause of death is yet to be determined. The poisoning of three white-tailed eagles was also investigated by police earlier this […]
Read more → 26 Apr 2022
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More than £60k has been seized from a man in Derby who illegally traded in the ivory from elephants killed by poachers between the 1970s and 1990s. Ngie Law, of London Road, was convicted in August 2021 of 18 different counts of buying, selling, and possessing the ivory goods without a permit, and fraudulently evading […]
Read more → 21 Apr 2022
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Officers are appealing for information after a protected bird of prey was found shot in woodland at Mominail, near Ladybank, Fife. The dead buzzard was found by a member of the public in the morning of Sunday, 9 April, 2022. Wildlife crime liaison officer, Detective Constable Ben Pacholek, said: “It is sad and disappointed to […]
Read more → 21 Apr 2022
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The Council of the City and County of Cardiff were reported to Natural Resources Wales for destroying a known habitat for Dormice, a European Protected Species at the Northern Meadows site in Whitchurch, Cardiff during 2021. The area was cleared to ground level and replanted with fruit trees. No European Protected Species (EPS) licence was […]
Read more → 19 Apr 2022
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Wild birds are nesting and the national campaign to protect them across the UK is underway. Egg thieves will go to any lengths to raid the nests of rare wild birds but Operation EASTER is determined to stop them in their tracks. Operation EASTER was developed in Scotland 25 years ago. The operation is now […]
Read more → 14 Apr 2022
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In Nature Scot’s latest blog, they take a look at bird photography and the issues that people need to consider to ensure they stay within the law and don’t disturb wildlife.
Read more → 13 Apr 2022
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POLICE are investigating the “unexplained death” of a goshawk that was discovered in Powys. The bird of prey was found dead in the Brecon area on Sunday, April 10, 2022 said Dyfed Powys Police. “The bird has been recovered by the Rural Crime Team (RCT), who are investigating the unexplained death of a goshawk […]
Read more → 11 Apr 2022
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David Kerr, 74, was fined £740 for committing the offences when a building being demolished on an estate in Dunblane. Kerr admitted the offences at Stirling Sheriff Court on Monday 11th April 2022 and was fined £740. The incident happened on 12 June, 2020, when a building was being demolished on the Glassingall estate. Wildlife […]
Read more → 05 Apr 2022
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The birds of prey were found in Renfrewshire in April 2022 just a week apart and authorities are investigating after suspicions were raised. The SSPCA said they suspect that two birds of prey have been shot dead in the space of a week. A firearm was confirmed as being used in one of the Sparrowhawk’s […]
Read more → 15 Mar 2022
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A wild peregrine falcon found badly injured after being illegally trapped and shot has been put down. Suffolk Police said the bird of prey was discovered by a member of the public in a field in Cratfield on 15 March and taken to the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary at Stonham Barns. It said the injuries, including […]
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