As his #wheredovesdie trip to Malta shows,Packham uses his celebrity status to promote good causes, even whether it means making a few enemiesLove him or loathe him Chris Packham is a hard man to disregard. Recently returned from Malta, and where he has been for a second time to highlight the massacre of thousands of birds on migration by Maltese hunters,he came up with the hash tag #wheredovesdie in tribute to the late singer Prince. The thought was to draw attention to the plight of the declining turtle dove. In 2014 he was intimidated by hunters and then threatened with arrest for his efforts. This time he has been accused of being an “unethical fake and a liar” by the hunters’ federation chief executive Lino Farrugia and declared a persona non grata on the island.
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Source: theguardian.com