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 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU2 
“Six suspected tiger poachers have been shot dead in a gunfight with Bangladeshi police at a hideout in the world’s largest mangrove forest. Police seized three tiger pelts which they said were from animals that appeared to be freshly killed. The Sundarbans in south-east Bangladesh are home to the rare Bengal tiger.” Read More
Read more → 04 Aug 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“On Wednesday 29th July 2015 Mr Stephen Donald Taylor B26/05/60 of Berrow Green Road, Martley, Worcestershire, appeared before Redditch Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to unlawfully destroying the resting place of European Protected Species (a bat roost). The facts of the case were that in 2014 Mr Taylor purchased a property with a view […]
Read more → 29 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Two men are due to appear in court in Zimbabwe later over the killing of Cecil, the country’s most famous lion. Professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu, are charged with poaching offences for not having the required hunting permit. US dentist Walter Palmer shot the animal with a crossbow and rifle outside […]
Read more → 21 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU2 
“A York man whose hobby was snaring wild song birds was caught setting traps by the roadside while going to Seamer Horse Fair, a court heard. Alan Smith, 59, was staying on a site in Gate Helmsley, en route to the fair, when he placed a cage in a nearby hedge.The trap, containing a Goldfinch […]
Read more → 20 Jul 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
Officers from the National Wildlife Crime Unit and Cumbria Police executed a search warrant at a house in the Workington area of Cumbria on Friday 17th July 2015. The warrant had been issued under the provisions the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 as a result of evidence gleaned during other investigations […]
Read more → 29 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“A gamekeeper has been cleared of trying to trap wild birds, after a judge ruled RSPB video evidence gained by trespassing could not be used in court. District Judge Kevin Grego, at Telford Magistrates’ Court, excluded the covert footage showing Neil Wainwright. Wainwright, of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, was cleared of three counts related to trapping […]
Read more → 26 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A company which sold jewellery made from animal claws has been fined over £2,000. The court heard that police were notified by Westminster Trading Standards that the jewellery was on sale at a concession of Annina Vogel Ltd in the Liberty department store in Regents Street. A Westminster Borough wildlife crime officer attended the location […]
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
An international law enforcement operation tackling the illegal trade in endangered species has seen more than 300 seizures of animals, plants and derivative products in the UK and hundreds more worldwide. In the six-week global operation Border Force and UK Police detected consignments at UK ports and airports including ivory and ivory products, 166 […]
Read more → 19 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU6 
“Joel Martin, 20 yrs, of Clayton Crescent, Waterthorpe, Sheffield appeared at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 16th June 2015 and pleaded guilty to possessing two wild tawny owls and possessing a trap capable of being used to take wild birds. A further charge of taking two owls from a nest in the Sheffield area was withdrawn. […]
Read more → 12 Jun 2015
Posted by NWCU4 
A well known angler was fined £240 [plus £620 costs] yesterday [11/06/2015] after being found guilty at Macclesfield Magistrates Court. Myles Gibson had been illegally fishing at Tatton Park Mere without a permit. Source: BBC North West Tonight To watch the video from BBC North West (iplayer) ~ click here.
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