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This is brilliant now the sabs can monitor and collect evidence and anything these thugs do is recorded so in a court of law theres NO EXCUSE not to bring assault charges im so glad PTW are empowering the sabs they are silent heros 🦊🐇🦌🐮🩷🩷🩷

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Fantastic. Take care of our SABS. They are amazing. Stay safe all of you.

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Equipment getting better and better! Go PTW, Go sabs and monitors!

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Back in the eighties when I was sabbing we had walkies, before the ban came in & the range became so low it wasn't worth having them. I'm 60 in April & I often wish I was that twenty year old sabbing those evil bastards once again.

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You are like me, age does not deter! lol At least we are here and there, still trying!

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I remember a lot of things that went on back then, stuff that the media, the tories, Labour & liberals would like forgotten. When we're gone history will be rewritten & what a world that's going to be. Liberals, mass immigration, homelessness, civil wars, riots, nonbinary, drag artists caring about nothing but themselves. I'm not pc I don't apologise for it, life was much simpler as a kid in the early seventies, my mother (85) says the fifties were even better.

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I agree with a lot of what you say, the simpler life was much better. My animal work for most of the years was before even mobile phones and certainly before social media. We turned out all the time with fund raising ourselves and gained notice and members that way. Newsletters, typed and posted, posters hand drawn and donations in cash or cheques while call outs were always answered coming in on landlines only. People of the village almost policed themselves as everyone knew everyone! I was so lucky to find a vet who would treat wildlife, especially foxes! It was definitely harder work then, but I loved my life and would not want to be growing up today! People say it's a generation thing, but I don't think so, just a personal opinion of course!

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My mother says the same thing.

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Good on you!

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Great

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It wasn’t that long ago that ‘animal rights activists’ - including hunt saboteurs - were considered by most of society - the public, the police and certainly the Establishment - as something threatening and lawless and needing to be controlled. Now, thanks to the selfless work of the sabs and the increasingly violent and lawless nature of the hunts the perception is experiencing a 180-degree turn. And with the regular adoption of bodycams it’s as though the sabs have assumed the role of ‘nature security’, there to deter the hunts from their illegal activities. Maybe this evolving identity of the sabs is being picked up by the rural police forces resulting in them choosing, more and more, to work with the sabs rather than against them leading to more and more convictions of the ‘hunter outlaws’. One can but hope.

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Hi David. That's a great comment and you're absolutely right - some mainstream media do of course still try to portray sabs and monitors as 'thugs' stoppig a 'lawful activity' but the narrative is changing (rapidly) as the genuine behaviour of hunts is being exposed to more and more people. Social media has made it more immediate and widepsread, and reports by the likes of Channel 4 have a huge impact. We are hearing more reports of police finally 'getting it' too . Its not a universal volte-face by any means but we'll keep doing everything we can on Protect the Wild to help that 180-degree turn take place.

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Well done people keep up the righteous work we are on the right side history 👍

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Just subscribed. Thank you for your tireless efforts and bravery in what you do to save our wildlife.

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Thank you :)

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Well done money well spent to help PTW help the sabs x monitors 🩷🩷

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PTW - can the recorded evidence be uploaded immediately to the “cloud” so it’s retained in case, as sometime happens the body cams are damaged in assaults or stolen ?

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Hi Dave. Interesting question. I don't think that is an option for many groups because of the remote terrian they operate in - good enough for a phone signal but not to upload a 4k file of many Mbs. Some groups do carry external hard drives so they can download key footage in the safety of their vehcles, but I'm not sure that's standard. Perhaps we should try and find out :)

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Hi Charlie, yes worth investigating as this would provide hard evidence of assaults etc for prosecution and would make the hunt thugs think twice !

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Bravo!! Wish we had more of this in Sweden, a shameless goverment under hunters dictatorship

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When such awful cruel atrocities happen I get quite disillusioned but then I get your posts and i am hopeful again and so glad there are people out there protecting all wildlife. I am going to raise my monthly contribution. Keep up the fight

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Its amazing that these brave people have such as PTW to help out with equipment needed more and more by these groups. Each group really needs bodycams, video gear, and the all-important "eye-in-the-sky," the drone, as it seems these nasty pieces of work are getting more brutal in their attacks, which the law is failing, very badly, to address. And while the law turns a blind eye, these monsters will continue to get more vicious. Maybe, just maybe, god forbid, they actually murder a sab, cops will get off their idle, useless, fat arses and actually do something, with all the appropriate paperwork. Makes me wonder if they can actually read and write, they are so loathe to do their jobs, and lets be fair, the sabs ARE doing cops jobs. We are supposed to have trained wildlife police, are we not??

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We have rural coppers here 4 of them to police Liverpool, Chester, Ormskirk boundrys so if we need them they coukd be miles away sometimes we just put the spotlights on the barns and that deters the lampers but there should be more than 4 to cover such a big area maybe its time to look at setting our own groups up i know the farmers here are fed up with the lampers sneaking around at night

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Excellent news !

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Omg, thats not nearly enough., Joeann. I realise everyone is struggling right now, and i suppose lack of police is leaving a very wide open window for these cruel lawbreakers. What a shame vigilantes would also be illegal. They would get my backing, right up to the hilt.

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May be guns could be provided only for testing not using of course.

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Can someone tell me the cost of "BODY CAMS" are, please the types used by the "SABS", thank you.

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