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
Two Lincolnshire men sentenced under new hare coursing legislation
Hoard of suspected poached deer skulls and fox tails uncovered after drugs raid in Nottinghamshire
09 Mar 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
On Tuesday 9th March 2021 officers from Sussex’s Rural Crime team accompanied by a NWCU Investigations Support Officer executed a warrant issued under COTES (Control of Trade in Endangered Species) at an address in the Sussex area relating to the illegal trade in endangered species. During the search of the property a number of items […]
Read more → 04 Mar 2021
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On March 3, 2021, Pacific Gateway Holding Inc. was ordered to pay a fine of $163,776 after entering a guilty plea in Vancouver court to two charges under federal wildlife legislation. These charges are related to the illegal importation of significant quantities of meat of the Anguilla anguilla, commonly known as the European eel. The company […]
Read more → 25 Feb 2021
Posted by NWCU4 
Eighty alligator heads have been found at a Birmingham house during a police search. Investigators said they suspected the leathery trophies were illegally imported from abroad and then sold on online auction site eBay for a large profit. A 44-year-old man is being voluntarily interviewed after the discovery at an address in the Perry Barr […]
Read more → 28 Jan 2021
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Jonathon SAGGERSON aged 47 of Gadsden Court, Milton Keynes appeared at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court on 27th January 2021 where he pleaded guilty to three offences contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulation 2018 (COTES). All the charges related to the skull of a rare and endangered species of deer known […]
Read more → 07 Dec 2020
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A man has been sentenced following an investigation into the sale of jewellery containing elephant hair. Rajtharan Mahalingam, 40 (15.10.80) of Down Lane, Isle of Wight was found guilty at Harrow Crown Court on Tuesday, 24 November of seven counts of purchase / offer to purchase / sell / keep for sale / commercial use […]
Read more → 07 Dec 2020
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A picture from an advert on Facebook of a Norwegian golden eagle ended in a prison sentence of 1 year and 4 months. On 27 October 2020, the AlingsĂĄs District Court sentenced a man in his fifties for one year and four months in prison for aggravated crime against protected species and smuggling. This is […]
Read more → 09 Nov 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
Coordinated by INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization (WCO), Operation Thunder 2020 rallied 103 countries against environmental crime. A month-long police and customs cross border operation (14 September – 11 October 2020) resulted in large seizures of protected wildlife and forestry specimens and products, triggering arrests and investigations worldwide. Focusing on pre-identified routes and hotspots, […]
Read more → 01 Nov 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
On 12th October 2020, Police Scotland launched “Operation Wingspan”, a year-long focus on wildlife crime. Wildlife crime is a major concern in Scotland and this police commitment to raising awareness about it is very important. #endwildlifecrime The first phase of the operation is a two month campaign to raise awareness about the illegal trade in […]
Read more → 29 Aug 2020
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NOTORIOUS Rathkeale Rover and rhino horn smuggler John Slattery clutches his belongings as he arrives back in Ireland after a US jail stint. He was Âidentified as a member of the Rathkeale Rovers, a global rhino horn theft and smuggling mob, by investigators working on Operation Oakleaf. Slattery was deported after three months at the […]
Read more → 24 Aug 2020
Posted by NWCU4 
A taxidermy dealer who illegally traded in critically endangered species has been sentenced at Preston Crown Court to a total of 56 weeks in custody. The sentence is the result of complex two-and-a-half-year investigation. In December 2017 the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and Lancashire Police launched a joint investigation into the dealings of Arron Halstead after […]
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