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
04 Nov 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Suffolk police were alerted at 8.40am on Thursday by a report that a group of men were hare coursing in a field between the A143 and the road to Barningham. A 20-year-old and 53-year-old, both of Sittingbourne, Kent, a 19-year-old from Gravesend, Kent, and an 18-year-old from Reigate, Surrey, were taken to Bury St Edmunds […]
Read more → 04 Nov 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “The Angling Trust and CEFAS today announced trials to find ways of reducing the impact of signal crayfish on English water bodies. CEFAS (the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science) and the Angling Trust have joined forces to try and find the most effective way of reducing signal crayfish numbers and their impacts on […]
Read more → 04 Nov 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Devon is the worst location in the UK for stag and deer poaching, according to official figures. In response, the police have today begun a specially targeted anti-poaching operation. Called Project Trespass, it follows a recent discovery of eleven stag heads in a North Devon lay-by. Police believe organised gangs are behind the increase in […]
Read more → 02 Nov 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Five different external signs have been unveiled, warning potential criminals ‘Beware this is a Farmwatch Area’. Force Deputy Director for Wildlife Crime, Sergeant Dave Jenkins said: “Farmwatch is going from strength to strength. Since the resurrection of Farmwatch in 2006, results to date for the Force and County are significant. With these signs being created, […]
Read more → 01 Nov 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “The British government has announced that to help in the fight against the poachers it is to send one of the most respected and feared fighting forces in the world – The British Army Paratrooper – to work with wildlife officers in Kenya. The deployment will take place later this month and the paras will be […]
Read more → 31 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“The grisly discovery of 11 stag heads at South Molton has triggered fears illegal poaching is spiralling out of control in the area. Police have confirmed the find was made at the lay-by in Folly Lane during the weekend of September 28-29. The North Devon Gazette understands all the heads of the red deer stags […]
Read more → 31 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 ” A father and son have been fined after pleading guilty to blocking badger setts on their farm and piping car exhaust fumes into the soil to gas to death the animals inside. David Bown, 67, of Batcombe, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, and his son, Philip Bown, 38, of Henley Grove, Bruton, Somerset, were fined £1,370 each […]
Read more → 28 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 
Wednesday, 23rd October, 2013 Police in Wakefield are appealing for information following the theft of two rare birds from the Middlestown area. It happened sometime between 10.30pm on Wednesday, 9th October and Thursday, 10th October. The two birds are Albidus Goshawks and were stolen from an aviary. They are both ringed with Wiper 4 and […]
Read more → 24 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“Three men have been arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after Humberside Police executed warrants on their addresses in Howden this morning (Thursday 24 October). The men are suspected of being involved in hunting wildlife with dogs. They have been taken to a police station for questioning. The intelligence-led operation involved officers from the RSPCA’s […]
Read more → 23 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “A falconry owner who illegally displayed and sold numerous birds of prey has been fined more than £1,000, ordered to undertake 200 hours unpaid work and given a six week curfew. Andrew McManus-Dunkley, owner of the Banwell Falconry in Smallway, near Congresbury, was found guilty of illegally displaying birds of prey for commercial gain which […]
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