IT’S no surprise to hear that wildlife expert Chris Packham welcomes the ten-year incarceration of two pandas from their home in China to Edinburgh Zoo.

He has recently said on a leaflet issued by the Isle of Wight Zoo, run by his present girlfriend: “If I were a tiger I know where I’d rather be, in a fabulous new enclosure and with the best of care”

(rather than in the wild is implied).

Oh Chris, you are out of touch with many who believe wildlife should be in the wild.

Would he like to see his beloved wild birds all in an aviary? I think not.

SHEILA CLAYTON, Southampton United Animal Charities.