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
14 Apr 2020
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Police in Gloucestershire have reported a spate of poaching incidents in April in the Cotswolds. There have been six separate poaching incidents in the past few weeks. The Rural Crime Team released a series of graphic images on Twitter of dead deer which had been found on land close to Sapperton, Calmsden, and Cheerington. In […]
Read more → 09 Apr 2020
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Police Scotland can confirm that a 64-year-old man has been charged with a number of wildlife crime offences in the Stewartry area of Dumfries and Galloway. Extensive investigations have been ongoing into the deaths of upwards of 20 birds of prey and other wild birds in the Springholm area near Castle Douglas between 2018 […]
Read more → 16 Mar 2020
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A study has called into question the effectiveness of measures to clamp down on the illegal wildlife trade. Critically endangered eels have been sold recently in Hong Kong stores, despite bans on their international trade, according to DNA evidence. The discovery raises concerns about the scale at which illegal wildlife products are entering the supply chain, […]
Read more → 13 Mar 2020
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Robert Evans, from Rotherham, admitted illegally having 10 unringed goldfinches, failing to ensure their needs were met and having a wild bird trap. He was disqualified from keeping birds for three years, given a community order with a two-month curfew between 9pm and 7am and ordered to pay £100 costs and a £192 victim surcharge. […]
Read more → 12 Mar 2020
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A seafood salesman has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for smuggling an estimated £53m worth of endangered live eels out of the UK. Gilbert Khoo, 67, transported the eels from London to Hong Kong, hidden underneath chilled fish, between 2015 and 2017, a court heard. He was caught after Border Force officers found […]
Read more → 11 Mar 2020
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A campsite owner has been jailed for two months after he deliberately killed an otter that had become trapped in a net. Stuart Karl John Jones, 54, of Chilthorne Domer, was sentenced after pleading guilty to deliberately killing a wild animal of a European protected species, namely a Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), contrary to the […]
Read more → 06 Mar 2020
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Derbyshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a Peregrine Falcon was found injured in Belper on 4th March 2020. The bird was taken to local vets on but died following surgery. We’re now appealing for information about how the Falcon became injured. Sergeant James Shirley from Derbyshire Constabulary’s rural crime team said: “The Peregrine Falcon was […]
Read more → 25 Feb 2020
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A man who killed a protected sparrowhawk in his neighbour’s garden, using a catapult, has been spared jail but handed a fine of over £800. Yovanis Cruz, of Copsey Grove, Portsmouth, appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today (25 February 2020) facing 1 charge of intentionally killing a wild bird contrary to the Wildlife and Countryside […]
Read more → 19 Feb 2020
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A 60-year-old pigeon fancier has been fined for shooting and killing a sparrowhawk. Duncan Cowan, from Cowie in Stirlingshire was fined £450 after pleading guilty to a charge under section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Stirling Sheriff Court. The court heard that on the afternoon of 18 April 2019 a bird of prey […]
Read more → 12 Feb 2020
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A man has made subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order for hare coursing – a first for Essex Police – after we responded to reports in West Hanningfield. Samuel Haylett, 30, of Barnes Road, Fimley, Camberley, was ordered to pay a £440 fine, £85 costs and a £44 victim surcharge at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on […]
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