Packham

[Rewulf]

Personally ,Ive never heard of the bloke,or seen his program.

So I googled him,from wikipedia.

 

Personal life[edit]

He is the brother of fashion designer Jenny Packham. He lives in the New Forest with his girlfriend, Charlotte Corney, owner of Isle of Wight Zoo,^[22] and his two pet poodles, Itchy and Scratchy.^[23]

Packham has suffered with Ménière's disease since the age of 37.^[24] In 1995, at the age of 34, Packham diagnosed himself with Asperger syndrome after comparing a list of symptoms to his own behavioural traits.^[25][26] He also revealed he has suffered from severe depression and had twice contemplated suicide.^[22]

[islandgun]

Ah, but don't you see, eco-tourism would pay for all this and everything will be right with the world (Avery's one).

 

 

of course ! i had forgotten them, when they turn up on their bikes with their tracker bar in hand, looking for a campsite that doesn't allow children but sells lentils and plastic sandals, then the countryside will be saved, but what will happen to the lively hood of the purveyors of champagne and caviar, that all those shooting types feed on

Edited October 28, 2016 by islandgun

[keg]

I take back what I said, grouse shooting might have a bigger problem than I thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/28/grouse-shooting-estates-shored-up-by-millions-in-subsidies

Based on the numbers quoted, £133,000 per estate is not millions. It's the Guardian so not surprised.

[The Heron]

Everybody is good at something and he is good at being a complete ****.

[chris1961]

The man is just an attention seeking pleb with out his stupid misinformed comments the man is just another has been that is trying to cling on to his celebrity status sad really and we are keeping him in wages time the BBC stood on their own two feet then he would be out on his are##

[lord_seagrave]

They are legal to hunt in Slovenia. I have a friend out there who has a superb hat made from their skins.

I went to Grad nežnik (?) about ten years ago for the "dormouse night". A real experience.

 

The total haul? One dormouse

 

LS

[UKPoacher]

To be blunt its widely available on the global net if anyone wishes to search for it.

 

Packham is in fact quite wrong The WWF, AEWA, & the CMS have been researching and testing Bewick Swans for 40 years and over 50% of birds tested contain lead shot not 30%. Its illegal to hunt the bird on its migration route but it still happens as it does with hundreds of other migratory species. The proportion of ingested shot is unknown however.

 

 

Making a statement on the BBC that 30% of Bewick Swans have been found to have lead shot in them on its own is irresponsible at best and more likely mischievous.

 

If the same statement was balanced with comments about indigenous, non-migratory Mute Swans having no lead shot in them and therefore the problem is likely to have occurred abroad during the Bewick Swan's migration or over wintering period, then that would be a balanced comment. Which is basically what Panoma has said. But that is not how people like Packham operate. they use the BBC's authority for personal agendas and people who haven't got the grasp of the fuller picture take his comments as fact without looking further into it.