Chris Packham, the naturalist and BBC TV presenter of SpringWatch, has ended up with dead crows attached to his gate after he successfully campaigned for a change in the law which farmers and others fear will stop them keeping pests like pigeons and magpies under control.
He was born 4 May 1961 in Southampton, and has talked openly about his Aspergers and depression. He has a chart similar in some regards to David Attenborough with both having an earthy Taurus Sun in aspect to idealistic and filmic Neptune and expansive Jupiter in Aquarius. Though Packham is more of a revolutionary with his Sun Mercury square Uranus; and he has an angry, hard-edged Mars in Cancer opposition Saturn.
Attenborough has very marked ‘master number’ 11 and superstar 22nd harmonics and a leaving-a-legacy-for-history 17H; which Packham doesn’t have.
Packham looks to be pleased this July onwards into 2020 with tr Uranus square his Jupiter but in general he looks deflated and confused ahead for several years with transiting Neptune hitting on half a dozen significant midpoints plus tr Uranus opposition his Neptune; and then he has a really tough tr Pluto conjunct his Saturn opposition his Mars in 2023/24.
I would have to confess I find him a touch extreme in his views at times. Keeping the ecosystems in balance means culling. Getting sentimental about furry and feathered creatures and letting them run rampant often causes them more harm in the long run.
Following the court case Chris Packham brought farmers can still cull if the apply for a licence His group were stopping people killing for pleasure.
Grew up in the countryside and am all too familiar with these methods of controlling so-called pests – saw it all at a young age – magpie traps, rabbiting with terriers, fox hunting et al. However, as a child I always recoiled from the killing of animals. I can’t even kill insects without feeling bad, so I doubt I’d ever qualify as a farmer or a gamekeeper.
My cousin’s husband used the “culling” excuse re his voracious appetite for hunting. He’s a big NRA guy who enjoys nothing more than slaughtering animals in the wild and hanging their heads on his living room wall.
…while vigorously excerising his 2nd amendment “rights” in this manner.
Many years ago I visited Gorongosa Game Reserve in Mozambique which was flourishing with elephants, lions, rhinos, water buffalo, gazelles various etc. Then a civil war came and the predators were wiped out, so the gazelle over-bred, numbers shot up and they ate all the vegetation and started to starve. After the war ceased predators were reintroduced from other reserves which started to keep gazelle numbers down and it stabilised the balance. And all went back to nature red in tooth and claw. It’s when one species starts to overrun that it causes problems and they end up damaging themselves never mind wiping out other species.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/26/chris-packham-has-gone-far-war-countryside-time-bbc-find-new/
Read an article about the feral cat problem in Oz. Estimated 2 million feral cats are targeted ; even cats in NZ are now at risk. Killing everything that purrs is hardly a balanced solution.
“https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/asia/feral-cats-australia-intl/index.html”
Here it is…