Two years in the past, masked males got here to Chris Packham's dwelling within the New Forest and set hearth to his automobile. After months of demise threats and intimidation from individuals who had been sad about his feedback concerning the unlawful persecution of birds of prey. (Packham was within the information once more this week after being assigned bodyguards whereas filming the brand new collection of Winterwatch, because of threats made in opposition to his household.)
The hearth additionally burned its wood gates, and what Packham did with the charred stays says quite a bit concerning the star overlaying this challenge.
Seeing the sweetness within the burnt wooden, he fastidiously lower them into three items of wooden and encased them in resin. He gave one to a good friend, auctioned off one other to boost cash for charities that “oppose the views of people that burned the gates” and saved one other as a memento. For what? “As a result of I knew I needed to flip it into one thing optimistic,” he mentioned.
Our interview is filled with such particulars that reveal what makes Packham tick, from his ardour for punk to his decided religion in younger folks and his instincts to guard the planet.
Picture: Pål Hansen
