Items Tagged 'Wildlife Crime'

Features

• New task force for tackling crimes involving hen harriers
• Following the Nose: Detection Dogs at the Front Line of Wildlife Crime

News

• Calls for bigger fines and longer sentences for wildlife criminals
• Bird of prey persecution crimewave during lockdown
• North Yorkshire Police leads online day of action to raise awareness of raptor persecution
• Funding boost to crack down on the Illegal Wildlife Trade
• Wildlife cybercrime is in police’s sights, but wildlife crime underworld remains mostly beneath the radar
• Company handed largest ever fine in relation to a wildlife crime
• New Scottish wildlife crime investigator appointed
• New research sheds light on crimes against birds of prey in Wales
• UN report praises UK efforts on wildlife and forest crime
• New legislation to crack down on cruel illegal hare coursing
• New legislation to crack down on illegal hare coursing now in force
• Bird of prey killing at ‘significantly high level in England’
• Record high wildlife crime levels could be worsened by new Government law, warn wildlife campaigners
• Operation EASTER launched for 2023 – stopping egg thieves and egg collectors
• Rare bird of prey found mutilated as 20 other individuals go missing
• Man sentenced for poisoning wild birds
• Scottish Government Response to Taskforce Report on SSPCA Powers
• Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill passed
• Reaction: Scottish Grouse Bill will damage the countryside, says BASC
• UK badger crime coalition relaunches Operation Badger to turn the tide on badger crime
• Wildlife crime at worrying levels while convictions at an all-time low warn conservationists - as new data reveals national marine mammal disturbance problem
• BASC funds police training to combat poaching
• Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes
• Yet more Hen Harrier persecution on grouse moors in 2025
• UK laws are failing birds of prey as widespread killing continues
• Wildlife crime needs enforcement, not gamebird licensing

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