Operation EASTER launches for the 28th year
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 May 2022
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A farmer pleaded guilty to cockfighting and other animal offences and was banned from owning cockerels and dogs for 10 years. Jack William Haskell, from Wareham, Dorset, was charged after police raided a property and seized a phone with a video of him involved in cockfighting. Another video showed a fox being attacked by a […]
Read more → 30 May 2022
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Archie James Watson, a 21 year old gamekeeper/farm worker from Pewsey has been summoned to appear before Swindon Magistrates Court on Wednesday 25 May at 10am, on 6 charges under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and 3 Firearms Offences. The case has been brought after almost two years of detailed investigation and forensic analysis in […]
Read more → 30 May 2022
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A joint initiative to tackle hare coursing across the East of England has led to the first person to be fined for breaching a Community Protection Notice (CPN) served under the scheme. Sydney Samuels, 33, of Oxford Gardens, Maidstone, was handed a £400 fine when he appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on 19 May 2022. […]
Read more → 27 May 2022
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A protected bird of prey found dead in a ditch had been shot and then glued to a bamboo stick, police have said. The sparrowhawk, which had been killed with a pellet gun, was dumped in a drainage ditch inside a plastic bag in Thorne, near Doncaster. It was discovered by a member of the […]
Read more → 27 May 2022
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Police have carried out searches at several locations this week (27 May 2022) in connection with suspected raptor persecution and poisoning of birds of prey. Officers from Durham and Northumbria attended the addresses across the two force areas following information received from the public. Suspicious substances were seized from some of the locations and taken […]
Read more → 29 Apr 2022
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Police have advised dog walkers to keep their pets on a lead in a forest in case they are poisoned. Dorset Police said a dead buzzard was found in the Ashmore area of Dorset, though its cause of death is yet to be determined. The poisoning of three white-tailed eagles was also investigated by police earlier this […]
Read more → 26 Apr 2022
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More than £60k has been seized from a man in Derby who illegally traded in the ivory from elephants killed by poachers between the 1970s and 1990s. Ngie Law, of London Road, was convicted in August 2021 of 18 different counts of buying, selling, and possessing the ivory goods without a permit, and fraudulently evading […]
Read more → 21 Apr 2022
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Officers are appealing for information after a protected bird of prey was found shot in woodland at Mominail, near Ladybank, Fife. The dead buzzard was found by a member of the public in the morning of Sunday, 9 April, 2022. Wildlife crime liaison officer, Detective Constable Ben Pacholek, said: “It is sad and disappointed to […]
Read more → 21 Apr 2022
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The Council of the City and County of Cardiff were reported to Natural Resources Wales for destroying a known habitat for Dormice, a European Protected Species at the Northern Meadows site in Whitchurch, Cardiff during 2021. The area was cleared to ground level and replanted with fruit trees. No European Protected Species (EPS) licence was […]
Read more → 19 Apr 2022
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Wild birds are nesting and the national campaign to protect them across the UK is underway. Egg thieves will go to any lengths to raid the nests of rare wild birds but Operation EASTER is determined to stop them in their tracks. Operation EASTER was developed in Scotland 25 years ago. The operation is now […]
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