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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
10 May 2012
Posted by greyheron “A man who became the first person in Scotland to be convicted of trading parts of endangered animal species has been given community service. Steven Paterson, 48, had the skull of a pilot whale and the tooth of a sperm whale stored in his home. He also kept and tried to sell two harbour porpoise […]
Read more → 05 May 2012
Posted by NWCU2 “It is suspected that a young golden eagle died after its legs were broken by an illegal trap. On 5 May 2012, the Scottish Agricultural College laboratory in Aberdeen carried out a post-mortem examination. This concluded that the raptor had suffered two broken legs due to trauma “that could be consistent with an injury caused by […]
Read more → 19 Apr 2012
Posted by greyheron “A FARMER has admitted owning a banned pesticide that has killed hundreds of birds in Scotland. Tom McKellar, 50, pled guilty at Oban Sheriff Court to possessing carbofuran, which is so deadly a single grain can kill a bird while just a quarter of a teaspoon could be fatal to humans. Officers investigating the discovery […]
Read more → 12 Feb 2012
Posted by greyheron “An man who made more than £20,000 from illegally selling stuffed birds on the internet has been jailed for 8 months. Greg Turner, 32, of St Peters Court, Astwood Close, Potton, pleaded guilty at Luton Crown Court to 13 offences involving the illegal trade of endangered wildlife. Bedfordshire Police raided his home back in September […]
Read more → 31 Jan 2012
Posted by greyheron “Colchester Zoo has spent thousands of pounds on security to protect the horns of its rhinos from poachers. A big-money alarm system has been installed to deter poachers who might be planning to sneak in at night and saw off the animals’ horns. Rhino horn has long been a sought-after commodity, but prices are currently […]
Read more → 12 Jan 2012
Posted by greyheron 
On 12th January 2012, Cyril McLachlan was fined £635 at Lanark Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing the banned pesticide Carbofuran. Following the recovery of a poisoned buzzard and bait, members of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, Strathclyde Police and Scottish Government Rural Payments & Inspections Directorate searched buildings and land around […]
Read more → 05 Jan 2012
Posted by greyheron 
On 5th January 2012, David Alexander Whitefield was sentenced to 100 hours of community service at Lanark Sheriff Court after being convicted of the unlawful poisoning of 4 buzzards with chloralose baits on a Lanarkshire Estate.
Read more → 02 Nov 2011
Posted by NWCU2 “BUSTED: A carved tusk and statue seized at the Auckland Mail Centre that have been tested and confirmed to be ivory from African elephants. Luxury items made of elephant ivory and turtle shell have been seized in Auckland as part of an international-sting on smugglers. Forensic tests will be carried out to confirm the pieces including three carved […]
Read more → 26 May 2011
Posted by greyheron “A gamekeeper on a Highland estate was found with enough poison to kill the country’s entire golden eagle and red kite population several times over. The raid on Skibo Estate in Sutherland was carried out last year just days after two golden eagles and a sparrow hawk were found poisoned. Two of the birds were […]
Read more → 26 May 2011
Posted by greyheron “A GAMEKEEPER has become the first person in Scotland to be convicted of possessing a dead red kite since the species was reintroduced to the country 22 years ago. James Rolfe, who worked on the Moy estate in Invernessshire, was fined 1,500 at Inverness Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to the crime, committed in June […]
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