{"id":38911,"date":"2024-05-24T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b075bf29-2cea-4168-ae27-e70fae49796a"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:35:38","slug":"who-is-chris-packham-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-springwatch-presenter","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/who-is-chris-packham-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-springwatch-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Chris Packham? Everything you need to know about the Springwatch presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham is best-known for presenting BBC nature series\u00a0Springwatch and for his conservation work. Here is everything you need to know about Chris Packham. <\/p>

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Published: Friday, 24 May 2024 at 07:57 AM<\/p>

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The Watches<\/em> (Springwatch<\/a>, Autumnwatch<\/a><\/em> and Winterwatch<\/a><\/em>) co-presenter, nature photographer, author and naturalist Chris Packham first appeared on our screens in the children’s CBBC nature programme The Really Wild Show.<\/em> Since then he is best-known for presenting BBC nature series Springwatch<\/em> since 2009 when he replaced Bill Oddie.<\/p>

Who is Chris Packham?<\/h2>Chris Packham is a naturalist, broadcaster, author and award-winning wildlife photographer. He is known for his environmental activism, and is one of the founders of Wild Justice<\/a>, a not-for-profit group funded solely by donations that takes legal challenges against the government and its agencies on behalf of wildlife in the UK. He is outspoken in campaigning against HS2 and was an active protestor at COP26.<\/p>
How old is Chris Packham?<\/h2>
Chris Packham was born on 4 May, 1961.<\/p>
Where is Chris Packham from?<\/h2>
He was born in Southampton, Hampshire and grew up there.<\/p>
What did Chris Packham study?<\/h2>
In a careers advice meeting in 1976, when Chris was 15, he claims he was told: \u201cYou cannot be an astronaut\u201d. He eventually studied kestrels, shrews and badgers in his teens and as an undergraduate at Southampton University, where he read Zoology. In 2013, he was made an honorary Doctor of Science by Southampton.<\/p>
When did Chris Packham present The Really Wild Show?<\/em><\/h2>Chris started building sets and cleaning cameras in July 1984, when he met wildlife filmmaker Stephen Bollwell, who he developed a long-lasting friendship with. He then went on to present the BAFTA-winning children’s series The Really Wild Show <\/em>saw presenters, which included Terry Nutkins and Michaela Strachan<\/a> as co-hosts and saw Chris swim with a killer whale and play football in the studio with a cheetah cub.<\/p>
<\/div><\/figure><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\"\/><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-chris-packham-married\">Is Chris Packham married?<\/h2><p>Chris Packham is in a relationship with Charlotte Corney, who runs and owns\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wildheartanimalsanctuary.org\/\">Wildheart Animal Sanctuary.<\/a><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-is-chris-packham-related-to-megan-mccubbin\">How is Chris Packham related to Megan McCubbin?<\/h2><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/who-is-megan-mccubbin-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-autumnwatch-presenter\">Megan McCubbin<\/a>\u00a0is Chris’s step daughter from his relationship with Jo McCubbin.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-does-chris-packham-live\">Where does Chris Packham live?<\/h2><p>Chris lives in a cottage in the New Forest, which featured in his personal documentary from 2017 called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p05k8jj6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">“Asperger’s and Me’ for BBC Two<\/a> where he talked about living with Aspergers. Chris’s partner, Charlotte, runs the Isle of Wight Zoo.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-group highlight-box is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-six-fun-facts-about-chris-packham\">Six fun facts about Chris Packham<\/h3><p>Here are some facts you might not have known about the 60-year-old Chris Packham.<\/p><p>1. Abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning are his favourite painters.<\/p><p>2. He enjoys reading military history \u2013 most recently the sinking of the Bismarck in World War II.<\/p><p>3. The bird he would most like to see is the Araripe manakin, a species only found in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. He calls it the Duran Duran bird, because of its bright red crest resembling a quiff.<\/p><p>4. His most memorable wildlife spectacle is watching \u2018one million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/birds\/facts-about-flamingo\">flamingos<\/a>\u2019 flying in to land on Lake Victoria. \u2018I could have burst, it was beyond comprehension.\u2019<\/p><p>5. He always keeps a roll of bin bags in his travel bag \u2013 he can use them for wet clothes or dead specimens.<\/p><p>6. A favourite joke is: \u2018I was at the zoo the other day and I saw a bloke trying to chat up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.\u2019<\/p><\/div><\/div><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\"\/><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chris-packham-s-favourite-music\">Chris Packham’s favourite music<\/h3><p>On BBC Radio 4’s <em>Desert Island Discs<\/em>, Packham chose the collected works of F. 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Where is Chris Packham from?<\/h2>He was born in Southampton, Hampshire and grew up there.<\/p>

Where is Chris Packham from?<\/h2>
He was born in Southampton, Hampshire and grew up there.<\/p>