Chris Packham

A row has broken out between naturalist Chris Packham and a council after an area of wildflowers was cut down. The TV presenter criticised Derbyshire Dales District Council on Twitter for mowing an area near Matlock's Arc Leisure Centre. He said the issue highlighted by not-for-profit group Little Green Space...

Just days after Dorset Police closed an "inconclusive" investigation into the poisoning of a rare white-tailed eagle on a shooting estate, the force has confirmed it is making fresh enquiries following the discovery of the bodies of a red kite and a buzzard.The deaths have raised serious concerns among wildlife campaigners that those illegally targeting birds of prey are increasingly turning away from the poisons used in recent decades, to rodenticides used to kill mice and rats legally.All three carcasses were found by a member of the public on pheasant shooting estates in Dorset, with the death of the white-tailed...

CCTV images of vehicles and a man suspected of being involved in an arson attack at the home of TV wildlife expert Chris Packham have been released by police. Two masked men set fire to a Land Rover Discovery outside his New Forest home in the early hours of 8 October.

Wildlife expert Chris Packham is suing three men for libel over claims he defrauded the public. The broadcaster took action over online articles claiming he tricked people into donating to the Wildheart Trust to rescue tigers while knowing they were well treated. Weblog editor Dominic Wightman, writer Nigel Bean and...

Environmentalist Chris Packham has said that a “line in the sand” was crossed after a series of defamatory articles made claims that he misled the public into donating to a wildlife charity to rescue tigers.The TV naturalist is suing three men for libel at the High Court over nine online articles claiming he defrauded people into donating to the charity to rescue the tigers while knowing they were well looked after.The strongly denied allegations, repeated in several tweets and videos, relate to Mr Packham’s involvement with the Wildheart Trust charity, which runs a wildlife sanctuary on the Isle of Wight.One...

A series of disputed articles alleged environmentalist Chris Packham misled the public into donating to a wildlife charity to rescue tigers and are defamatory, a High Court judge has found.The TV naturalist is suing three men for libel over nine online articles claiming he defrauded people into donating to the charity to rescue the tigers while knowing they were well looked after.The strongly denied allegations, repeated in several tweets and videos, relate to Mr Packham’s involvement with the Wildheart Trust charity, which runs a wildlife sanctuary on the Isle of Wight.One of the articles on the website Country Squire Magazine...

Allowing vegetation to grow on a beach, which has been left to become grassland in a bid to improve biodiversity, has turned it into an "oasis" for nature, wildlife expert Chris Packham has said. Wirral Council stopped spraying herbicides on Hoylake beach in 2019 and also no longer rakes the...

In The Wind in the Willows, Badger is depicted as a bachelor, preferring his own company – but that wasn’t the only thing that Kenneth Grahame got wrong. A real badger’s response to a mole who had fallen over his doorscraper would not be to welcome him inside his den: he’d eat him.

When the conservationist Chris Packham saw a badger he had befriended lying dead in the road, he was so upset that he felt compelled to write an emotional tribute to its passing. In a moving eulogy on Twitter, the television presenter said he had first come across the badger last...

Environmentalist Chris Packham is bringing a High Court libel claim over articles which he says falsely alleged he misled the public into donating to a wildlife charity to rescue “broken” tigers from circuses.The TV naturalist is bringing a claim over a series of online articles which repeatedly claimed he defrauded the public into donating to the charity to rescue the tigers while knowing they were well looked after.The allegations, which were repeated in several tweets and videos, relate to his involvement with the Wildheart Trust, a charity he is a trustee of.Mr Packham strongly denies the allegations and is suing...

The RSPCA has released pictures of a robin accidentally caught in a glue trap designed to catch rodents to highlight the danger they pose to wildlife at large – amid hopes the traps could soon be banned. The animal welfare charity and the wildlife presenter Chris Packham are calling...

Every year around 50 million pheasants are reared by gamekeepers on private land and released into the British countryside. But are pheasants livestock, or are they wild animals? The answer, it seems, is “it depends”.The question has popped up because of changes to the wording of a law which governs the legality of shooting birds such as crows, magpies and pigeons. These species, it is argued, can impact game birds, which the law says count as livestock.But the changes are being questioned by conservationists because if the protections for game birds are based on them being classified as livestock, at...

It was Easter 1981, and I was a 20-year-old zoology student at the University of Southampton, about to set off on my first trip abroad without my parents. It was a two-week field trip, travelling with a group of fellow students to Zahara de los Atunes in Andalucia in southern Spain to explore the local wildlife.

A picture of a man police want to speak to after an arson attack outside the home of wildlife campaigner Chris Packham has been released. Mr Packham said two men set a Land Rover on fire outside the gate of his New Forest home at about 00:43 BST on 8 October, causing extensive damage.