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
06 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“France destroys confiscated ivory worth around €6 million in front of the Eiffel Tower, ahead of a London summit on fighting the illegal wildlife trade. More than three tons of ivory worth around €6 million (£5m) were on Thursday pulverised yards from the Eiffel Tower in a public display of France’s commitment to an international […]
Read more → 04 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Rare iguanas that had been stuffed into socks were seized after officers stopped two Romanian women arriving from Bahamas Thirteen incredibly rare iguanas that had been stuffed into socks by smugglers have been seized by customs at Heathrow airport. The endangered lizards were found in a suitcase on Monday at Terminal 5 of the London […]
Read more → 03 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU4 “A Swedish man has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing thousands of nests of eggs including large quantities from protected species of bird. The verdict was handed down at the Ångermanland district court in northern Sweden where the 47-year-old was found guilty of hunting and aggravated species protection offences. During one sweep […]
Read more → 03 Feb 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“The CITES Secretariat is pleased to make available today the logo created to celebrate the first World Wildlife Day (3 March 2014) as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. We welcome all countries, organizations and all interested individuals to make use of the logo in their celebration of the first World Wildlife Day.” To […]
Read more → 27 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Cases of hare coursing in Suffolk have gone down by a third since an operation to target the illegal activity began last year, police have said. There were 300 incidents reported from September 2012 to March last year and officers said that figure had gone down this winter. Suffolk Police joined Operation Galileo in September. […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“A Battersea man has been fined just £1,375 despite admitting to illegally trading ivory, whale and dolphin bone and marine turtle shell online. Detectives from the Met Police’s Wildlife Crime Unit began investigating Alick Brown, 30, from Worfield Street, Battersea, in May 2012 after Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) raised concerns about two companies. […]
Read more → 24 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 “Police have identified two boat owners in connection with the death of a baby dolphin that was mowed down in the Camel Estuary last summer. Wildlife Crime officers launched an investigation in July after the juvenile bottlenose dolphin was killed near Padstow.” To read the full article click here SOURCE: This is Cornwall
Read more → 23 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“Last night (22/1), the wildlife officer for Aylesbury, PC Dean Kingham, led a deer poaching operation using low light equipment. The operation came after the England and Wales Poaching Priority Delivery Group launched a national campaign titled Project Trespass on the 1 October 2013. The aim of Project Trespass is to coordinate a response to […]
Read more → 22 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“LYON, France – South Africa has requested INTERPOL Purple Notices in order to locate two vessels whose operators are suspected of illegal fishing and of subjecting their crews to labour and human rights abuses. The two fishing vessels, Samudera Pasific No 8 and Berkat Menjala No 23, were among a fleet of 10 arrested by […]
Read more → 20 Jan 2014
Posted by NWCU6 
“From urban foxes to endangered eels and the illegal traffic in protected species, London is an unlikely location for a wide variety of wildlife crime. Now, for the first time in the capital’s history, WSPA has joined forces with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to deliver London’s first multi-agency enforcement seminar aimed […]
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