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2025-2028 NPCC Wildlife & Rural Crime Strategy
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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
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 […]
Read more → 01 Oct 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
Project Trespass A new initiative to provide a coordinated response to poaching was launched on 1st October 2013 by the England and Wales Poaching Priority Delivery Group, which includes the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) in its membership. Tackling poaching is one of the UK’s wildlife crime priorities. It blights the countryside and affects farmers, […]
Read more → 30 Sep 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “Wildlife officers in the Lothians say they are getting calls on a daily basis about hare coursing, a blood sport that has been illegal for a decade. The activity takes place in broad daylight and peaks at this time of year, officers say. Wildlife officers have been combing the back roads and fields around Midlothian, […]
Read more → 30 Sep 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “An economic crime perpetrated by criminal syndicates in the most remote regions, exploiting local people and lax laws Wildlife crime now ranks among trafficking in drugs, arms and human beings in terms of profits. It is an economic crime often perpetrated by criminal syndicates operating in the most remote regions of our globalised world, exploiting […]
Read more → 30 Sep 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “A side event was held at the General Meeting of the United Nations yesterday. It was held jointly by the Gabon and Germany to highlight wildlife crime and trade. At the meeting the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, committed the UK to doing everything it could to combat wildlife crime – so will the coalition finally […]
Read more → 30 Sep 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “New York: Efforts to combat illicit wildlife crime received a massive boost today as heads of state and a number of ministers outlined the serious impacts of poaching and illicit wildlife trafficking. During the most important meeting of the year in international politics, governments chose to highlight illicit wildlife trafficking as a major threat to peace […]
Read more → 23 Sep 2013
Posted by NWCU1 A Sussex man has admitted illegally hunting a fox – after being filmed by a wildlife campaigner. Huntsman Nicholas Bycroft, a member of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt, was filmed by at Angmering Park, near Arundel, on February 19 this year. Wildlife monitors – volunteers who are against hunting – filmed Bycroft hunt a fox […]
Read more → 22 Sep 2013
Posted by greyheron “The number of fish being poached from British rivers has increased dramatically in recent years, according to the Environment Agency. It has stepped up its surveillance of waterways across the country and has launched covert fishery patrols to try and stop potential poachers in their tracks.” Source: BBC News Author: Judy Hobson To read full […]
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