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Campaigners against London mayor Sadiq Khan's Ulez are hanging bat boxes on camera posts to stop engineers repairing them.
Activists have vandalised scores of cameras since Mr Khan's expansion of the ultra-low emission zone last year.
And now the £10 National Trust bat homes have been seen in areas across south and south-west London, including North Cheam, Chessington and Kingston-upon-Thames.
Bats are protected by law and it is a criminal offence to disturb their resting places and breeding sites. The newly installed boxes are accompanied by notices reading 'Stop. This is a bat box'. Under a heading 'Bats and the Law' is a list of criminal offences against bats.
One anti-Ulez activist told the MyLondon website: 'The purpose of the bat box is to make it difficult for TfL on any installation, be it a new pole before the camera is installed, or a pole where a camera has been damaged, removed or covered et cetera, and the team is returning to attempt to reinstall, repair or clean a camera.
'It will be interesting to see whether TfL and the
