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
30 Apr 2019
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On Tuesday 30th April a person who undertook the development of Pembroke Farm, Brougham, Cumbria appeared before Carlisle Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to one charge of damaging or destroying a bat roost. He was fined £750, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £75 victim surcharge. Planning permission was granted to allow for the […]
Read more → 09 Apr 2019
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A development company has been fined more than £18,000 for illegally destroying a building where protected Pipistrelle bats were known to roost. Landrose Developments was fined £18,820 at Brent Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 5 April after pleading guilty to destroying the breeding site / resting place of a European Protected Species (EPS), namely Pipistrelle Bat […]
Read more → 05 Apr 2019
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On 4th April 2019, Matthew REYNOLDS, 29, of Gloucester appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to charges contrary to the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 relating to the sale of an African Grey Parrot. Two further charges under the same legislation were not proceeded with. REYNOLDS was given a 6 month curfew […]
Read more → 04 Apr 2019
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Concerns are growing about sightseers causing undue stress to a vast colony of seals on a beach in Aberdeenshire. The mouth of the River Ythan is a protected site for the grey seals to rest and breed. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is becoming increasingly worried about the number of mass stampedes of the seals […]
Read more → 02 Apr 2019
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Plans to reintroduce the UK’s largest bird of prey to the south coast of England have been given the go-ahead. White-tailed eagles, which have a wingspan of up to 2.5m (8ft), were once widespread but were wiped out in the UK a century ago. Natural England has issued a licence to the Roy Dennis Wildlife […]
Read more → 01 Apr 2019
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Rare birds could be disturbed or even distressed by errant drone pilots trying to get photographs, it has been warned. Drone pilots, whether hobbyists or photographers, are warned to avoid disturbing nesting birds in Suffolk Suffolk has some very sensitive sites where rare bird breeds, both native and migratory, are either already nesting or will […]
Read more → 23 Mar 2019
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An innovative new type of satellite tag has been designed to provide a boost to understanding raptor movements and behaviour, as well as help understand the fate of birds which die in the Cairngorms National Park and more widely across Scotland. Over the next 18 months some young Golden Eagles in and around the Cairngorms […]
Read more → 19 Mar 2019
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Hen harriers are disappearing on English grouse moors due to illegal killing, according to a scientific study. The birds of prey are one of England’s rarest birds, and a protected species. Data gathered over a decade found satellite-tagged hen harriers were ten times more likely to die or vanish when they were on or near […]
Read more → 27 Feb 2019
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A gamekeeper found guilty of committing a wildlife crime received a conditional discharge at Skipton Magistrates’ Court. Austin Hawke, 51, of Ilkley, failed to check a snare following an incident at Denton on 29 May 2018 where a badger was found dead. The offence is listed under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Following a […]
Read more → 18 Feb 2019
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On Wednesday 6th February 2019 Mr Piara Singh SEHAJPAL pleaded guilty at Haywards Heath Magistrates Court to two charges of destroying bat roosts. The first charge related to the destruction of a brown long eared roost and the second a common pipistrelle roost. Although initial surveys confirmed the presence of the roosts no emergence surveys […]
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