Chris Packham took to Twitter last night after a social media user got in touch to draw attention to a local wildlife issue. The Springwatch host retweeted the post and blasted the council involved, telling them people don’t want their “green spaces destroyed and their biodiversity ravaged”.
The original tweet included a picture of the freshly mowed meadow and explained the consequences for the plants and wildlife.
“@SouthamptonCC‘s contribution to Earth Day was to mow the meadow area next to the golf course driving range.
“There was a huge patch of ladies smock [Cuckoo Flower] & now less resilient to drought, the orange tip butterflies that were there are gone & any eggs they’ve laid won’t hatch,” it sadly read.
“It beggars belief,” Chris said.
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“Keep up the fight Chris. Nature lovers like myself appreciate you being a loud and determined voice for us all, and more importantly, for all the natural world around us,” it read.
Earlier in the day, the TV star, who turns 60 next week, received a similar complaint.
Alongside a video showing another meadow which had been mowed, a Twitter user wrote: “Yesterday this meadow was ablaze with cowslips, now gone! So frustrating!!
“I contacted the council & they did say they’d tell the contractors to avoid them, but seems the message has got lost.
