The petition to get chris packham sacked

[Whisky2014]

Wtf is this shit?

"87,866 Supporters
BBC to sack Chris Packham
As an employee of the BBC, Chris Packham should remain impartial and keep his views and beliefs to himself however, he is the face of many anti hunting campaigns and uses his celeb status as a platform to push his anti hunting agenda, he has made his goal to ban all kinds of hunting, and country sports and pursuits and I feel he is no longer fit to work for the BBC"

How about David Attenborough then? From this person's logic he should also be sacked

I didn't even know there was a petition. I'll get it signed. Thanks for posting

I rather like Chris Packham usually, but this most recent campaign he's been involved in is stupidity writ large. There are more appropriate ways to challenge him than stringing up dead crows though.

I am so bloody sick of these juvenile petitions. What sort of idiotic way is this to go about things?

Chris speaks out against the mess that is grouse moor management too

Yes those horrible landowners and gamekeepers managing moorland so that any idiot with a disposable bbq couldn't set it all alight killing all the wildlife in sight. How's banning that that worked out for the country over the last few years then?

What Scrowy said. We have no shortage of bloody crows. And I hate fox hunting.

Chris Packham is awful, I'd be happy to see him go. He doesn't have the first clue about the realities of rural life but he thinks he knows it all.

Ihatethecold

The BBC sack no one ever.”

Jeremy Clarkson. I will express no opinion, at least 50% of voters will scream at me whatever I say 😬

Quite a few personalities have disappeared from the BBC for having 'controversial' views.

He supports the climate change protestors & yet if you’ve got £7 grand he’ll happily go on a tour round Alaska with you, presumably none of those going will be getting there by bike www.steppestravel.com/alaska-cruise-with-chris-packham/overview

My husband and I have both signed. Thanks for putting up the link!

The question is, are we for protecting rare and vulnerable birds, or against it?

Last month everyone was up in arms about hedgerows being netted to prevent small birds nesting near development sites. Everyone seemed to agree that depriving the birds of the ability to safely nest and lay eggs was detrimental to their chances of survival and was in general not in the best interests of hedgerow birds and song birds.

This month Wild Justice has successfully campaigned for the immediate revoking of certain vermin control licences that allow farmers and conservationists to trap or shoot pest species which prey on these same small hedgerow birds. People who understand the issues involved here ar up in arms about it, because many years hard work protecting vulnerable species will be undone in the space of one breeding season. The change in licencing has been brought about suddenly, with no consultation, and right in the middle of the breeding season meaning no alternative licences can be applied for in time to protect the songbirds. This is a very good article explaining the issues from the POV of conservationists.

Crows and magpies are pests, and clever ones too. They will happily break and eat all th eggs our hens lay in their hen house - if 18 angry hens and a big angry cockerel can’t chase them off, a blue tit doesn’t stand a chance. I also learnt the hard way how cruel they can be when I once put my chicks out to enjoy some sunshine in what was a fairly secure pen. It had high enough walls to keep any cat or fox out, but it took the crows almost no time at all to find a way in and begin to eat my young hens alive. They are predators and scavengers and will eat anything that can’t get away from them.

I don’t think that hanging dead crows on Chris Packham’s gate is a clever thing to do. It draws attention for all the wrong reasons. I also don’t think that campaigning to sack him is the correct way to go about things either. But Chris Packham is a vocal supporter and campaigner who frequently uses his BBC platform to put across his own views which are often not conducive with real wildlife protection. He is passionate, which makes him listened to and believed, but not always right. And I think in so vociferously backing the campaign to revoke these pest control licences he will have inadvertently helped bring about the decimation of many of the species he claims to love and want to protect. And that is why people who live in the countryside are angry with him.

Love Chris Packham. What kind of scum hangs two crows up on a gate? Oh the kind that kills wild animals........ 😒
Signed the one against him being sacked👍

I'm not much of a hunting lover, but if the person who hung the crows at the gate was the one who killed them, they've probably saved rather a lot of wild animals by that one act. I don't agree with them doing it, but if you frame it purely in terms of saving wild animal lives, you give it an ethical justification it doesnt deserve.

Chris packham is one of the most principled presenters on air.
If the ethics of the argument are debatable he does go all in though his expertise should permit him an opinion.
I will sign not to sack.

The BBC sack no one ever.

They sacked Bill Oddie, which was how Packham got onto Springwatch.

I'll also now sign the one against him being sacked. Just because he works for the BBC doesn't mean he can't hold views and campaign for what he believes in. Lots of celebs campaign and support various charities who campaign for all sorts of things. Just because you don't agree with him doesn't mean he should be sacked. There are celebs out there who support brexit for gods sake, and look what that's going to do to our country. But Britain allows free debate and that's right.

I don't understand this at all

do these people want every presenter on the BBC to keep schtum about absolutely everything? And if so, why? Seems weird.

He's a tosser and I've signed it. No apologies.

But even if you think he is a tosser, why do you think he should lose a job?
Would it be fair if you lost your job because someone decided to start a petition to get You sacked? It's not real life!

CP is great, a wonderful role model. I signed the petition to NOT have him sacked yesterday and sent it onto friends.

It is weird @RosaWaiting. Silence everyone. Keep everyone happy? How boring!

Thank you to all the farmers etc on here for telling the other side of the story.

I think the netting of hedgerows/ not controlling crow and magpie numbers juxtaposition interesting.

He's a tosser and I've signed it.

Hmm good argument 🙄

The whole corvids attacking lambs thing is bullshit. They sometimes will try a newborn if it's sickly, but otherwise, statistically, a lamb is more likely to drown. What a load of crap

As a sheep farmer I can say for definite that grows do attack lambs, even healthy ones. Last year we had a horrible year with the bastards. This year we've not really been bothered but that's not the point.