Chris Packham joins
BBC's 'Springwatch'

Lifelong naturalist. photographer, author and broadcaster Chris Packham is set to join Kate Humble and Simon King for this season's popular live wildlife programme ‘Springwatch’ on BBC 2. Chris will take the sofa seat alongside Kate recently vacated by Bill Oddie who has left the series to take some time off.

Chris says ‘It’s a great pleasure to become part of such a successful programme and one that ticks all my boxes when it comes to revelling in the wonders of British Wildlife and engaging with a live and enthusiastic audience. For me it's all about getting the young and the casually interested onboard and empowering them to connect with the real wildlife that lives around them and ‘Springwatch’ is undoubtedly TV’s best vehicle for this ‘.

He adds ‘Bill Oddie has been a great friend and mentor for many years and he will be sadly missed by the ‘Springwatch’ viewers but I’m looking forward to working with Kate and a fantastically enthusiastic team to inject my own brand of passion for wildlife into the series. Doing live television is always a buzz but when you add the vagaries of wildlife and the Great British weather to the mix it gets even more exciting. I can't wait to get started!'.

Zoologist Chris has been presenting wildlife on TV for the last 22 years and has fronted no less than 75 series and 500 programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Discovery and National Geographic. Most recently he has been seen on ‘Nature's Calendar’ and ‘Nature's Top 40’ (BBC). He is known for his honest down to earth style, for leading rather than lecturing the viewer and for his surfeit of irreverent wit. He is an award winning photographer with an artistic style and a committed and outspoken conservationist, being President of The Bat Conservation Trust, London Wildlife Trust and Hampshire Ornithological Society, Vice- President of the RSPB, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Butterfly Conservation and The Wildlife Trusts and patron of many other charities. He lives by the mantra that one ‘should try anything once’ and has thus been skydiving, wing-walking, diving and clubbing in downtown Lima – the latter two more than once! He is perhaps best known as a keen birder but is excited by everything that slithers, slimes, scratches and stings and thus counts Hornets as one of his favourite animals.

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