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
10 Jul 2019
Posted by NWCU4 
Police are investigating the poaching of freshwater pearl mussels at a Highlands river. The remains of more than 100 of the protected shellfish were found on the upper reaches of the River Oykel in Sutherland on 4 July 2019. Police believe the poaching happened some time over the last two months. The mussels […]
Read more → 15 Jun 2018
Posted by NWCU4 
Police in Aviemore are appealing for information after a number of endangered freshwater pearl mussels were removed from the River Spey and killed. A total of 80 mussels were found near the fishing hut approximately a quarter-mile downstream from the Old Spey Bridge in Grantown. They are believed to have been removed sometime over the […]
Read more → 13 May 2018
Posted by NWCU4
Several dozen freshwater pearl mussels have been killed by poachers in Assynt in the north west Highlands. Assynt Field Club said the shellfish were forced open in the “off chance” one or more might contain a pearl. The group said the poaching had happened at some point during the last two months. Freshwater pearl mussels, […]
Read more → 04 Nov 2016
Posted by NWCU6 
More than 100 freshwater pearl mussels have been found dead at a river south of Lochinver in the Highlands. Police Scotland said the mussels had been taken from the river’s bed and the shells opened to see if there was a pearl inside. The 113 dead mussels were found during a survey for the protected […]
Read more → 15 Sep 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
Wildlife crime is a top priority for police in the north-east. They walk along the banks of the River Dee with their heads down, looking for clues among the pebbles. Suddenly, Constable Mike Whyte stops and crouches down, before waving something in the air. As he and fellow wildlife officer Constable Steve Lafferty make their […]
Read more → 19 Nov 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Illegal freshwater pearl mussel fishing has damaged populations of the species in Assynt “for decades”, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has said. Three incidents of poaching have been detected on different rivers in the area of west Sutherland. In the worst of the incidents, thousands of empty shells were found. Freshwater pearl mussels, which are a […]
Read more → 01 Aug 2013
Posted by NWCU2 “GAMEKEEPERS and ghillies are teaming up with wildlife crime officers in a bid to halt the theft of freshwater pearl mussels in Scotland. The illegal fishing of these bi-valve mussels, Margaritifera margaretifera, is threatening the species. They are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and are often found on the bed of salmon rivers […]
Read more → 13 May 2013
Posted by NWCU4 
“CONSERVATIONISTS have called for urgent action to curb illegal fishing that is threatening to push the freshwater pearl mussel into extinction. Buglife, the invertebrate conservation trust, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) say the mussel, which can live for more than 100 years, is one of the most endangered molluscs in […]
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