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
22 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “PESHAWAR: Illegal trade of endangered Saker and Peregrine falcons continues unabated across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, allegedly with the help of government officials. For the past two decades, Peshawar is said to be the largest black market of falcons in the world. Affluent Arabs often visit the city to buy these birds. “An Arab Sheikh from Saudi Arabia […]
Read more → 18 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Ugandan officials have seized some two tonnes (4,600lb) of ivory – one of the country’s biggest such hauls for many years. The Uganda Wildlife Association (UWA) has said the 832 pieces of ivory could be worth up to $6.7m but other estimates put the value lower. Experts say some of the ivory is believed to […]
Read more → 16 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Police are targeting poachers in the Ribble Valley as part of Operation Firecrest, a week-long crackdown on rural crime. More than a dozen poaching incidents have been reported by local farmers and gamekeepers since May involving wild deer, hares and rabbits. Recently a butchered Sika deer was found near Bolton-by-Bowland. The deer appeared to have […]
Read more → 16 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 ” A Smithy Fen traveller has been detained in New York accused of illegally dealing in black rhinoceros horns. Michael Slattery, who uses an address at Orchard Drive on the site in Cottenham, is alleged to have used falsified documents to sell four horns to a dealer for $50,000 – about £31,300. The 25-year-old was […]
Read more → 15 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “Police Scotland is appealing to Midlothian communities to report incidences of hare coursing. Local wildlife liaison officer PC Hannah Medley said this was a popular time for the illegal sport as hares had nowhere to hide in stubble fields. Individuals set up a beating line with their dogs to flush out hares. Once the hare […]
Read more → 11 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“Hackers have broken into the websites of banks, news outlets, social media, and the government, but could key information on the whereabouts of endangered species be targeted as well? Possibly, say conservationists: An incident in India has some concerned that wildlife poachers could use the Internet as another resource for criminal activity. In July, Krishnamurthy […]
Read more → 11 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 “A specialist Metropolitan Police unit which protects the capital’s wildlife and combats the trade in endangered species is itself under threat unless City Hall provides more cash. London Assembly Members have expressed concern over the future of the Met’s Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) which will lose part of its funding when a partnership with the […]
Read more → 11 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“A man has been arrested by officers from the NCA as part of an investigation into the alleged smuggling of endangered birds of prey. The 49-year-old was questioned following the search of a property in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex on Tuesday 8 October. A number of dead birds, believed to be owls, were recovered from a freezer […]
Read more → 07 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “At least fourteen alleged members of a gang of rhinoceros poachers have been arrested in Nepal, officials say. Those arrested include Buddhi Bahadur Praja, the alleged leader of a cross-border smuggling ring. Police accuse Mr Praja of killing more than 12 rhinos in Nepal in the past six years. There has been no immediate comment […]
Read more → 02 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Is it time for a war on poaching? When Hillary Clinton unveiled an $80 million plan last week to combat elephant poaching in Africa, she highlighted a new and worrying trend: money from wildlife crime may be helping to fund terrorist groups. These include the al-Shabaab group that attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya […]
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