Dominic Dyer Author

Dominic Dyer is a wildlife protection campaigner, writer and broadcaster.

He left school at 16 and joined the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food as a civil servant. Over the next 13 years in Whitehall and Brussels he worked on issues ranging from marine environment protection to organic agriculture. In 2000, he left the public sector for the Food and Drink Federation, where he became an expert on the environment and healthy eating trends. In 2008, he was appointed chief executive of the Crop Protection Association, the trade body for the UK plant science industry.

In 2012, he abandoned his career as an industry lobbyist and became a full-time wildlife protection campaigner with Care for the Wild. 

Today, he is policy advisor for the Born Free Foundation and chief executive of the Badger Trust.

Chris Packham is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author. He is best known for his television work including the CBBC children's nature series, the Really Wild Show from 1986 to 1995. He has presented the BBC nature series Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch since 2009.

He is vice-president of the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Brent Lodge Bird & Wildlife Trust.

He has been a consistent opponent of the badger cull in England, describing it as “sickening, expensive, cruel and divisive.” A dead badger was hung on the front gate of his home in the New Forest because of his views on the cull.