Chris Packham Draws Winning Ticket

TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham joined Anna-Louise Pickering, President of the Pollyanna Pickering Foundation to draw the winning ticket in their summer prize draw.

The Foundation continues Pollyanna’s legacy raising funds and campaigning for conservation and animal welfare in the UK and worldwide.

Chris is a wildlife expert, photographer and author with a passionate concern for conservation and the environment, and Anna-Louise was delighted that he take time out his bust schedule to select the wining ticket. The lucky winner, Jackie Watt of Maidenhead, Berkshire has won an original painting of a tiger.

Chris is best known for his television work including the children’s nature series The Really Wild Show. He has been a regular fixture in our living rooms with the BBC nature series’ Springwatch and Autumnwatch since 2009. Like Pollyanna he often gets very close to his subjects in the course of his work – he’s been attacked by a baboon, charged by lions and bitten by a puff adder! His strong opinions have sometimes proved controversial, but there is no doubting his genuine passion, and his impressive knowledge of his subject makes him an invaluable advocate for the natural world.

Chris and Pollyanna acted as joint patrons of two organisations – Raptor Rescue and Naturewatch, and Pollyanna also appeared on his TV show Nature’s Calendar, sketching red deer live for the cameras.

Between the sales of prize draw tickets, donations and a percentage of sales from the Spirit of The Jaguar exhibition held in Pollyanna’s private gallery in June, the Foundation has raised £5000.00 to help create a Shock Free Zone to protect Wildlife in the rainforest of Costa Rica.

Each year there are more than 3,000 electrocutions of wild animals in Costa Rica. Dozens of mammals such as monkeys, sloths, anteaters, foxes, squirrels, as well as birds and reptiles are electrocuted daily on power lines. Almost all the lines used in Costa Rica for the supply of electric service are aerial and are constructed with conductive materials without insulation. The project consists of insulating transformers and electrical lines that are currently without insulation. The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation is proud to be providing the highly specialist materials to insulate ten of the transformers.

Anna-Louise has been invited to visit the project to see first hand the impact of the Pollyanna Pickering Foundation’s work.

Prize Draw Results :

First Prize : 00159 : Original Painting : Ms J. Watt, Maidenhead

Runner Up Prize of framed signed limited edition print:

00595: Mr Grayling, Sheffield

Runner Up Prizes of a selection of signed calendars and books

01521 : Mr Clarke, Warwick
00356 : Ms M. Palmer, Sheffield
00320 : Ms R. Newell, Sheffield
00084 : S. Key, Newark
00272 : Ms A Beresford, Heanor
00373 : R. Trickett, Chesterfield
01001: V Beardsley, Codnor
00206 : Ms D. Orchard, Wessington
00024: Mr R. Wheatcroft, Derby
00522 : Ms E. Clark, Ripley