Chris Packham says 'our job will be done' as he makes end of life admission

 Chris Packham has described how his "job will be done" when he comes to the end of his life and joins the natural world. A familiar face to nature lovers, Chris is perhaps best known for his roles on BBC Springwatch and CBBC favourite The Really Wild Show, appearing alongside his long-time co-host Michaela Strachan.

His passion for the natural world continues in his latest project, a documentary called Greenwashed, which delves into the world of environmentalism and "confronts existential ecological crises threatening our planet". Chris's devotion to nature runs so deep that he even plans to continue this legacy after death. He wants his ashes combined with his dogs' and to be buried beneath a tree so he can be returned to the natural world he cherishes.

For the 64-year-old naturalist, the answer to what happens after death is clear - we "break down into carbon units," destined to be recycled.

Chris told Metro: "We break down into carbon units that are recycled. My ashes are going to be mixed with those of my dogs, who have been cremated.

"Once we've been mixed together, my partner, hopefully - or my stepdaughter - will put them under a specific tree in the forest. We're going to become part of that tree - a leaf.

"A caterpillar will eat that leaf. A blue tit will eat the caterpillar. And then a sparrowhawk will kill the blue tit. Our job will be done."

It comes after Chris revealed that he wants to put tobacco-style health warnings on packs of meat on supermarket shelves in an effort to shock people into changing what they eat.

Describing current labels as "a joke", he cautioned us that a more troubling tale lies beneath the branding, one that obscures the true environmental toll of our food, as he opened up about the "appalling conditions".

He said: "I often fantasise, I will get round to it, I'm gonna have a whole series of stickers printed of animals kept in appalling conditions, and then I'm going to go and stick them on the meat packets in the supermarket and see how people react.

"As they did when they were buying cigarettes and looking at diseased lungs, if they pick it up and see a pig in a farrowing crate covered in its own excrement, blood and rolling on its own piglets, then are they going to buy and eat that?

"A percentage of people would be sufficiently empathetic that they would change their habit."

Chris added that we have to be "moving in that direction", theorising that "health is a good way to go" when it comes to swaying public opinion.