TV presenter and environmental activist Chris Packham has been reported to police for sniffing a goshawk chick live on BBC's The One Show.
Packham was celebrating the return of goshawks, a protected species, to breed, while filming The One Show.
The environmental activist was pictured posing with three goshawks, having promoted the show on Instagram writing: "Tonight on The One Show I get up close and very personal with some New Forest Goshawks!" Packham was then seen on TV sniffing a chick in order to experience its “characteristic scent or perfume” after the birds had been involved in a series of scientific tests.
The act has seen the TV presenter reported to the police, who will look at whether the BBC had a license to disturb the rare animals.The man who complained to the police told The Telegraph: "I watched the programme and was struck by the way Mr Packham was handling and sniffing the birds. "These birds are Schedule 1 protected and it is a crime to ‘intentionally or recklessly disturb at, on or near an active nest’."“Raptor persecution is illegal yet every year a huge number of goshawks are killed by gamekeepers … not by scientists or people in the media," he said.
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