Chris Packham

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Christopher Gary Packham CBE (born 4 May 1961) is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter, and author best known for his television appearances, including the CBBC children's nature series The Really Wild Show from 1986 to 1995.

Since 2009, he has been a host of BBC nature television programmes Springwatch, including Autumnwatch and Winterwatch.

Early life

Packham was born in Southampton, Hampshire, on May 4th, 1961. He was educated at Bitterne Park Secondary School, Taunton's College, and the University of Southampton, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology. Since graduating, he decided against a Doctorate of Philosophy in order to train as a wildlife photographer.

Charity work and wildlife conservation

Packham is president of the Hawk Conservancy Trust, the Bat Conservation Trust, the Hampshire Ornithological Society, the British Trust for Ornithology, and the Southampton Natural History Society. He served as president of the Hawk and Owl Trust from 2010 to 2015.

He is vice president of the Royal Society of Birds, Butterfly Conservation, the Brent Lodge Bird & Wildlife Trust, The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and Grace Secondary School (The Sudan).

Packham is a sponsor of Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust), Africat, and the Sholing Valleys Study Centre. He is also a member of the Woolston Eyes Conservation Group, which oversees Woolston Eyes Bird Reserve, The Humane Research Trust, The Fox Project, ORCA, The NatureWatch Foundation, Raptor Rescue, The Fleet Pond Society, and Birding for All.

In October 2017, Packham became the Ambassador for the National Autistic Society.

Packham launched Wild Justice in February 2019, a not-for-profit venture that limited by a promise to ensure that the UK's legal system protects wildlife.

Personal life

Packham spent his early childhood in Hampshire, where natural history was his greatest passion. He is Jenny Packham's older brother.

He found his time at school to be miserable, socially excluded, and frequently bullied by classmates. He was in charge of a kestrel's care in his youth, which he took from the wild and the death of which was a serious low point in his life. He took part in the punk rock movement at university.

Since being in his late 30s, Packham has had Ménière's disease. After the death of his dog in 2003, Packham saw a therapist. Packham was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome as his therapist's duties came to an end in 2005. He has also admitted to being depressed.

Packham has owned a Bordeaux, France, house. Packham and his pet poodle, Scratchy, lived in the New Forest in 2016. Sid and Nancy, the bassist with the Sex Pistols, and Nancy Spence, Sid Vicious, Sid Vicious' girlfriend, were among Sid Vicious' miniature poodles that he shared with his New Forest home in 2019.

Packham has been in a long friendship with Charlotte Corney, the owner of the Isle of Wight Zoo, for more than ten years, although the two couples live together. Megan McCubbin, a zoologist who has appeared on Springwatch, has a step-daughter.

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Television career

Packham was a part-time camera assistant for wildlife filmmaker Stephen Bolwell, who worked with him on A Toad's Tale in 1983.

He appeared on The Living Planet series and The Living Isles for the BBC and Ourselves and Other Animals, a Channel 4 series.

Packham is best known for his television broadcasting career, which began in 1986 with the BAFTA-winning BBC1 children's show The Really Wild Show (1986–1995) and nature photography series Wild Shots on Channel 4. He also wrote and screened The X Creatures and Nature's Calendar, as well as BBC One's Hands on Nature and Nature's Calendar. Go Wild (Live) and Travel UK for Central Television, Nature's Detectives (BBC), Really Wild Guide (BBC), and The Great Dinosaur Trail, which he wrote and presented for LTV Carlton Television, are among several television series on sale, including Go Wild (BBC), Animal Zone and An Evening with Chris Packham for Discovery Animal Planet. Other network television shows included Flying Gourmets Guide (BBC), The Great British Birdwatch (Live) for BBC, Smokescreen for Harlech Television, Beachwatch (Live), Flamingo Watch (Live) for the BBC, and Behind the Scenes of the Lost World for Meridian Television.

Packham appeared in many regional television series, including The London Wildlife Challenge for ITV Carlton Television, Anything Goes (Live), Birdwatch with Chris Packham, The Pier on Film, and Go for Green for Meridian Television during this period. Through Two Cameras, The Wild Garden, The Wood Worker, The Disappearance of the People, Jewels in the Sand, Wildfowl Seasons, and The Keepers of the Forest were among the Regional television shows on television: Through Two Cameras, Two Cameras, The Wood Worker, The Wood Worker, The Disappearance Down, Jewels in the Sand, The Keepers of the Forest.

He appeared on BBC South's Inside Out as the lead presenter and has also appeared on BBC South East's Inside Out with Kaddy Lee-Preston.

He has co-presented the BBC Two nature show Springwatch and its sibling programmes BBC Autumnwatch and BBC Winterwatch, as well as many others since June 2009. He has also led yearly birdwatching tours in The Gambia.

He founded Head Over Heels with producer Stuart Woodman, who created Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and the BBC, producing wildlife shows.

Packham appeared on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind in 2011. The Battle of Rorke's Drift was his subject matter. He also appeared on BBC television show The Animal's Guide to Britain.

Secrets of Our Living Planet, a four-part documentary series based on the discovery of seemingly unconnected animals, such as tigers and crabs, that are dependent on seemingly unconnected ecosystems.

Packham also produced Inside the Animal Mind, a two-part BBC documentary in which he, Martha Kearney, and Adam Hart investigated in depth the honeybee's behavior in 2014, as well as a BBC series on animal cognition that partly featured his own pet dogs. He created the BBC's 10-part series The Wonder of Animals in 2014. It contained episodes on birds of prey, dolphins, crocodiles, mountain apes, foxes, ants, big cats, bears, and penguins.

Cats vs. Dogs, which Is Best? two-part series on the BBC in 2016, co-presented by Packham and Liz Bonnin. In the context of a mock competition, the programs compared cat behavior and human interactions with humans against those of dogs. It also reviewed some of the latest findings on the subject.

Packham co-presented Earth Live on Nat Geo Wild with Jane Lynch and Phil Keogan in 2017. The program was a live journey on the planet to see some of the world's most dazzling animals. He also worked with Jaguar Land Rover on a promotional podcast series called The Discovery Adventures.

Chris Packham's Asperger's and Me, a BBC Television documentary about his time as a high-functioning guy with Asperger's. Packham compared the United States' response to autism and Asperger syndrome in the program.

In January 2018, he appeared on BBC Two's The Real T-Rex, in which he attempted to reconstruct the most authentic Tyrannosaurus rex ever seen from the bones up. On BBC Two in January, Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl, he discussed the effects of palm oil consumption on Sumatra's rainforests.

Packham co-hosted Yellowstone Live on National Geographic Channel in August 2018, a four-night festival showcasing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with live streams from hundreds of photographers and seven camera crews.

Packham appeared in March 2019 alongside Liz Bonnin and Steve Backshall in a four-part series Blue Planet Live.

In 2020, he narrated Primates, a three-part documentary film series. He co-presented Waterhole: Africa's Animal Oasis, along with Ella Al-Shamahi, which premiered in December of the same year.

Packham premiered Animal Einsteins, a six-part BBC Two documentary film series set in 2021; the series premiered on February 212021.

Chris Packham: A Walk That Made Me, a one-hour special, premiered on BBC Two in July 2021, in which Packham took a familiar route in Hampshire. Chris and Meg's Wild Summer co-produced a six-part series with step daughter Megan McCubbin.

Packham appeared with Megan McCubbin BBC's Earth Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in August 2022.

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