AN UPDATE FROM PROTECT THE WILD

Welcome to your Protect the Wild update Firstly, I'd like to say thank you so much for your continued support, especially in such challenging times. With you by our side, we continue to work hard for the protection of wildlife.  March was a busy month with investigations, campaigns, and providing support to some brilliant organisations and activists. So I thought I'd share a snapshot of our work from the last few weeks.  Thank you for being a part of this movement. If you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you, just email us. Rob, Founder of Protect the Wild. Ministry of Defence campaign gathers momentum  Last month we launched a short animation featuring the voice of broadcaster Chris Packham. It supports our petition calling for the Ministry of Defence to stop issuing 'trail hunt' licences. Over 18,000 people have already signed, please take action if you've not done so. Our animation goes viral. To support our efforts to educate the public about the issue of snares and the persecution of mammals by the shooting industry, we produced a powerful animation narrated by Sam Carter from the band Architects. Amazingly, over 1.4 million people have now viewed our video. No justice for wildlife  The case against Duncan and Verity Drewett was dismissed last month due to errors by Wiltshire Police and Wessex CPS. The case related to undercover footage obtained by Protect the Wild which showed the Drewetts aiding the Vale of White Horse Hunt in chasing a fox. We are currently looking into an appeal.  More equipment for anti-hunt activists Last month, we were pleased to respond to a request from Cotswolds Hunt Sabs to help them buy personal safety equipment for use in the field. Plus we helped Herts Wildlife Monitors with a donation to help repair their camera equipment.    Protect the Wild supports Secret World Wildlife Resuce Also in March, my colleague Charlie visited Secret World Wildlife following Protect the Wild's £2,500 donation to aid their tremendous wildlife rescue work in the south of England. Charlie has provided lots of lovely photos and a short blog about the visit and how the donation is being used which you can read here.   Badges are a sell-out! If you were one of the supporters who purchased one of our stunning fox badges last week, thank you. We sold out AGAIN!  But fear not, we have just released our new Protect the Wild badge (pictured) which you can check out here! We rely solely on support from the public. We receive no major funding or government backing. So if you agree with what we stand for and want to help us do more to end hunting and shooting in the UK, please consider leaving a donation or adopting an animal with us today.