The choice of Chris Packham to receive the UK Green Ribbon Award for the best environmental campaign by the media – “anti-hunting blogs filmed in Malta” – as reported on November 18, is indeed significant.

Clearly this proves clowns are most likely to win awards for doing nothing but make people laugh. Packham, who declared he would be filming “millions of birds being shot by thousands of hunters”, actually filmed nothing but two or three dead or injured birds of unknown provenance that certainly disprove his declared intentions.

The man is a farce and awarding him for a total sham makes the Green Ribbon Award even more farcical.

Considering that “the 2014 Green Ribbon Political Awards are kindly sponsored by Thames Tideway Tunnel, a major new sewer urgently needed to help address the unacceptable and growing problem of raw sewage discharges into the tidal River Thames”, Packham was indeed the perfect match for such sponsorship and therefore the choice is quite understandable.

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