Chris Packham, Top Guy

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
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Looks like Chris Packham is going to be the Scottish hill farmers new best friend. He even quotes the the NFUS line about right tree, right place. He criticises the blanket Sitka plantations with a barren habitat underneath which risk decimating hill farming communities because of generous grants. He also has worries about increasing predators, fewer ground-nesting birds and loss of species-rich grasslands currently grazed by sheep.
It is usually easy but hard to argue with him on this.
 

Raider112

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Looks like Chris Packham is going to be the Scottish hill farmers new best friend. He even quotes the the NFUS line about right tree, right place. He criticises the blanket Sitka plantations with a barren habitat underneath which risk decimating hill farming communities because of generous grants. He also has worries about increasing predators, fewer ground-nesting birds and loss of species-rich grasslands currently grazed by sheep.
It is usually easy but hard to argue with him on this.
There's more than one Chris Packham?
 

Hilly

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Looks like Chris Packham is going to be the Scottish hill farmers new best friend. He even quotes the the NFUS line about right tree, right place. He criticises the blanket Sitka plantations with a barren habitat underneath which risk decimating hill farming communities because of generous grants. He also has worries about increasing predators, fewer ground-nesting birds and loss of species-rich grasslands currently grazed by sheep.
It is usually easy but hard to argue with him on this.
He’s right this time , too late for many sadly , been saying the same for twenty years perhaps he folllws me lol 😂
 

C.J

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Devon
Isnt there a scandal about Chris and tigers?
I believe his partners zoo re homed a retired circus tiger.

It was well looked after and in excellant health, but they starved it ,photographed it ,and then claimed they broke in and saved it from a fate worse than death ,so they could extort donations from gullable "animal lovers"
 

Agrivator

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I believe his partners zoo re homed a retired circus tiger.

It was well looked after and in excellant health, but they starved it ,photographed it ,and then claimed they broke in and saved it from a fate worse than death ,so they could extort donations from gullable "animal lovers"

Surely that can't be true. Even I wouldn't stoop quite so low.
 

primmiemoo

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Location
Devon
He was on a children's wildlife show when i was not even in my teens in the 80's along with a Mick Miller lookalike i think, can't remember what it was called though, didn't like him them either.


Terry Nutkins? He was OK, but the show was irritating after Animal Magic. Hyper, and dumbed down for da yoof, iirc.
Packham was a pain. Yes, he's older than we think he is. Makeup, and clothes, dahlink.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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