Chris Packham

Veganuary founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover. Photo: Veganuary

New film marks 10 years of Veganuary movement founded in Yorkshire

Greta Thunberg was among those speaking at the protest in central London. Credit: XR/Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images.

'Oily Money Out': Greta Thunberg joins protesters in central London

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh. PIC: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Drilling in the Rosebank oil field is a ‘no brainer’ - Bill Carmichael

The songs and dances for Stritcly Come Dancing Halloween 2023 have been revealed. BBC Studios/Ray Burmiston.

Strictly Come Dancing and George Michael: TV highlights this week

A woman carries grouse and a gun as she walks with her dog at a shooting party on the moors in North Yorkshire as the Glorious 12th, the official start of the grouse shooting season, gets underway. Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Glorious 12th: Grouse-shooting season under way with row over licensing bid

Chris Packham's new series Earth starts next week. Photo: BBC Studios/BBC.

Chris Packham on new BBC series Earth: 'We're not acting quickly enough'

Who’s set to join the latest season of Celebrity Gogglebox

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan.

BBC blames ‘challenging times financially’ as Autumnwatch is cancelled

Sir David Attenborough (left) speaking to the presenter Chris Packham for Winterwatch. (Photo credit: BBC/PA Wire)

Sir David Attenborough said BBC was reason for working abroad

Sir David Attenborough (left) speaking to the presenter Chris Packham for Winterwatch. (Photo credit: BBC/PA Wire)

Sir David Attenborough says 'BBC's internal politics' led to him going abroad

The prospect to debate the shooting of woodcocks in parliament comes after a petition calling to limit the woodcock shooting season hit the threshold at which it can be considered to be debated. The petition, created by the BBC’s Chris Packham, passed 100,000 signatures in December.

BASC and Chris Packham happy to take shooting debate to parliament

A ten-year-old from East Yorkshire has been recognised by the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards for a photo of a baby squirrel he took in back garden.
Hugo Napier took a picture of the orphan squirrel being fed milk through a syringe and submitted it to the annual national competition for under 18s, which this year attracted more than 4,000 entries.

Rising stars from Yorkshire honoured at the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards

BBC TV presenter and activist Chris Packham was reported as being one of the personalities urging schools to increase the uptake of veggie meals. PIC: PA

Why schools shouldn't impose meat-free meals on children - Mo Metcalf‑Fisher

Conservationist Chris Packham is urging schools to introduce more plant-based options on lunch menus. Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Chris Packham urges schools to have more plant-based lunch options

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps during a visit to Leeds in January 2020.

Grant Shapps a low-rent Chris Packham in half-price rail promos - Jayne Dowle

Taken by Annie McBeth, 11, from Bath

Yorkshire photographer, 11, shortlisted in RSPCA children's competition

Gannets nesting on the cliffs at Bempton, a popular site for birdwatchers to visit. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

The best place to go birdwatching in the country is on the Yorkshire Coast

Chris Packham in 2019 making a speech on top of a bus stop during the Extinction Rebellion demonstration on Waterloo Bridge in London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Archive/PA Images.

Chris Packham on narrating new National Geographic shows and his vegan diet

Jane Land and Matthew Glover who founded Vegnanuay at their home in York in 2014

Veganuary - how an idea over a glass of wine in York became a global phenomenon

The Countryside Alliance has launched a staunch defence of grouse shooting.

Grouse shooting’s economic and environmental case in response to TV’s Chris Pack...

The organisation is asking for donations to its Equipment Donation Scheme

A new donation scheme will help youngsters access wildlife watching equipment
A new donation scheme to help youngsters get access to wildlife watching equipment has been launched by a leading research charity.

Autumnwatch is coming back to BBC - here's when and how to watch

The plight of hen harriers continues to concern conservation campaigners in Yorkshire.

Hen Harriers need protecting ahead of ‘Glorious Twelfth’ – Yorkshire Post Letter...

Chris Packham has lost a Court of Appeal bid for legal challenge over HS2

Chris Packham loses appeal against HS2

What is your view of TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham?

Why Chris Packham demands respect over rural issues – Yorkshire Post Letters

A Peacock butterfly with Ingleborough in the background.
Picture: Tony Johnson.

Give back to nature by counting butterflies this weekend, garden spotters urged

TV presenter Chris Packham has taken his fight against the controversial HS2 rail scheme to the Court of Appeal (Photo: Ian West/PA Wire)

Chris Packham's bid for legal action over HS2 reaches court of appeal

Chris Packham, one of the team who front Springwatch. Picture: PA Photo/BBC

Springwatch's Chris Packham wants a 'new healthier normal' for us and for the pl...

Netting on the hedge on the A19 near Mount Grace Priory Picture: Wildlife Rebellion

Highways England in the firing line over netting hedge on the A19

Labour MP David Lammy is part of the line-up for the Festival of Debate in Sheffield in April. Pic: James Hardisty

See the line-up for Britain's biggest politics festival coming back to Yorkshire

On the brink: Turtle dove numbers have dwindled by 93 per cent since the 1970s; a conservation scheme is working to reverse the trend. Picture: Richard Bennett

Strictly Come Dancing and Springwatch presenters support project to save endange...

Leeds By Example tackles plastic waste. (Pictures: Hubbub).

Plastic waste is one of the scourges of our time - but are we doing enough to ta...
The 500-millilitre clear plastic water bottle rolling in the gutter could easily be the emblem of our time.

Demonstrators from the Yorkshire Moorland Communities braved the weather to take a message to BBC Presenter Chris Packham as he arrived at the Royal Hall in Harrogate.

Harrogate residents protest against 'unjust attacks on their livelihoods'

Gordon Buchanan holding bear cub. (Photo credit: Anwar Mamon).

Gordon Buchanan on the wonder of wildlife and why he’s more scared of humans tha...

Should parents be discouraged from driving their children to school?

Let’s see if young climate change activists are willing to walk to lessons to cu...

Packham was awarded a CBE for his services to nature conservation earlier this year.

Chris Packham on wildlife campaigning, Greta Thunberg and living with Asperger's

The beef sector is suffering from the worst farmgate prices for years. Picture by Gary Longbottom.

Ben Barnett: Bringing beef 'back from the brink' needs a properly informed publi...

Ben Barnett: Bringing beef 'back from the brink' needs a properly informed publi...

Wharram Percy occupies a remote but attractive site in a beautiful Wolds valley. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

Why an abandoned Wolds village that survived plague is worth a visit - Roger Rat...

Children run through the meadow looking for butterflies

Painted ladies create hive of activity in a world of social butterflies

Wild Justice makes courts vow amid fresh legal challenge against pest bird contr...

TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is a member of Wild Justice which has launched a fresh legal challenge against Natural England's bird control licences. Picture by Simon Hulme.

Wild Justice makes courts vow amid fresh legal challenge against pest bird contr...

MP for Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake wants "fair" pest bird controls.

MP Kevin Hollinrake wants 'fair' pest bird controls amid licencing disruption

TV presenter Chris Packham's views on the environment continue to divide opinion.

Chris Packsham should stop ignoring old ways of rural living – Yorkshire Post le...

Protests have been held over climate change. PA image.

Human race ‘faces catastrophe’ as a million species face extinction

Police prepare to remove climate change activists on the roof of a DLR train at Canary Wharf station during environmental protests by the Extinction Rebellion group in London.

Why Extinction Rebellion protest tactics on climate change are justified – Russe...

An investigation has been called for by Farming Minister Robert Goodwill into Natural England's decision to revoke three general licences which allowed for 16 bird species to be shot freely. A new general licence has since been put in place for carrion crows. Picture by Gary Longbottom.

Farming Minister Robert Goodwill demands investigation over Natural England's bi...

An artist's impression of the proposed York Central redevelopment site.

York Central redevelopment plan should be ledt in the sidings – Yorkshire Post l...

TV presenter Chris Packham who said he has been sent death threats after backing a legal challenge which resulted in restrictions on shooting "pest" birds. Picture by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire.

Chris Packham death threats in birds shooting licence row condemned

Chris Packham warns of 'enormous volume' of pesticides harming wildlife

Wild Watch patron and TV star Lindsey Chapman in Nidderdale

Ad Feature VIDEO: Help Wild Watch to save threatened Yorkshire wildlife says TV star Lindse...

Chris Packham, author of Fingers In The Sparkle Jar

Centuries of wildlife captured between the covers

BBC presenter Chris Packham.

YP Letters: Chris Packham should stop meddling over Yorkshire grouse shooting

Newsreader Kate Silverton in a ring of 80 pairs of artificial tusks, symbolising the scale of the slaughter of African elephants killed by poachers, at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Kids mix with stars at Hampton Court flower Show preview

The kingfisher chicks gathered inside their nest. Picture by Robert E Fuller.

Secret life of kingfishers to be shared on air

Gamekeeper Jimmy Brough at Rosedale. Pictures: Simon Hulme

Why the value of gamekeepers should not be lost

Gundog handler Fiona Kirk with her English Setter, Zeus and Anthony Dowson 28, Moorland Beat Keeper for the Thimbleby estate, stalking his game on the moor.

Arms and the woman

Chris Packham. Picture: Alex Britton/PA Wire

Video: Warning as ticks found on almost one third of dogs

Does your dog have ticks? Worrying report reveals increase in numbers among our ...

Momentum against grouse shooting 'unstoppable' say campaigners, as petition hits...