A perk of the job, when you re a top BBC presenter with a huge social media following, is that if you climb onto a soap-box, people listen.
Just ask Chris Packham, who over the years has used prime-time status to front noisy campaigns against everything from country sports and badger culls to plastic pollution and the HS2 high-speed rail scheme.
Only this week, he was calling for Britons to refrain from the bizarre habit of mowing lawns, in order to protect nature, while last month he was lobbying against I m A Celebrity . . . for making contestants eat insects, a practice he dubbed exploitative and as abuse .
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Brighstone Primary Pupils Get Behind Veg Pledge For Island Zoo
By Adam Richardson
Animals at the Isle of Wight Zoo will receive hundreds of items of fruit and vegetables, thanks to the children of Brighstone Primary School.
Following Reception’s and Key Stage One’s school trip to the zoo at the beginning of November, the whole school was inspired to get involved in the zoo’s ‘Veg Pledge’ scheme which helps the zoo to provide quality fresh food to their animals at minimal or no cost.