Television presenter and conservationist Chris Packham has called for an end to the use of live animals on reality show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!
The ITV show has announced that contestants will not eat live insects or animals on the show which begins on Sunday.
The end to the Buschtucker Trials has been warmly welcomed by animal lovers.
The 58-year-old naturalist and campaigner calls on Dec to “think how his daughter will perceive his actions” in the future, and demands for an end to animals being used in bushtucker trials.
I am writing once again about the abuse of animals on ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’.
I make no apologies for being tenacious.
I’d like to call upon your consciences to reconsider the validity of your ‘bush-tucker trials’, to cease these and to end all involvement of animals in your forthcoming series.
You see since the programme first aired in 2002 the world and its attitudes have moved on.
Many of us have always found these abuses repugnant but now a far greater number of people have woken up to the fact that we are facing a Climate and Environment Emergency and that we are precipitating a mass extinction event.
Here are a couple of statistics for you to think about…
Since around the time you were both born we have lost between 40 and 50% of all the worlds wildlife.
Since you were born we’ve lost 90 million birds from the UK countryside.
Further, to say that exploiting animals for entertainment is a thing of the past in civilised societies in the 21st century should be a given.
Circuses have gone, dancing bears have gone, cock and dog fighting are the sad preserve of psychopathic criminals…we have no performing dolphins in the UK and no Chimpanzees dressed up for tea time.
The cruel exploitation of wildlife for gratuitous entertainment on your programme is now no more than an ugly anachronism.
It’s embarrassing the great reputation of the UK as a ‘nation of animal lovers’.
I am certain that you and the imaginative producers at ITV could find very entertaining ways of replacing these segments of your show.
So can I please, on behalf of a large and growing number of people, ask you to immediately stop abusing animals on ‘I’m a Celebrity’?
Declan, you have a daughter, please think about how she will perceive your actions as she grows into a world increasingly devoid of wildlife… we are now all aware that we have a duty to safeguard our world for future generations.
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Good morning @antanddec @ITV @itvnews I hope you are well . On behalf of many animal lovers I’ve written you (another) letter . For our world to survive this needs to be the age of change so could you please have a read , and a think and then get back to me ? Thanks . Please RT pic.twitter.com/NnSPxdpR7R
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) November 16, 2019
It's time to meet our 2019 Campmates! ⭐ They won't be looking this glam for long…@antanddec return with these shiny new Celebs, Sunday at 9pm on @ITV and @weareSTV #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/riQFEeohRF
— I'm A Celebrity… (@imacelebrity) November 11, 2019
