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A climate change protester has been arrested for trying to confront Sir David Attenborough as he dined at a Michelin-starred fish restaurant.
Emma Smart, an activist for the campaign group Animal Rebellion, allegedly caused a disturbance at the Catch at the Old Fish Market in Weymouth, Dorset.
She was asked to leave the venue before being dragged out and detained by police.
Mrs Smart, 45, approached Sir David’s table and tried to deliver a letter to him and have a five minute chat about ‘telling the truth’ about climate change.
She added: ‘We don’t need another documentary series showing us that we are losing, some 150 species going extinct globally every single day. What we need is action.’
Sir David, 96, had spent Thursday in the harbour town of Weymouth to film a TV documentary about fishing and went to the nearby restaurant in the evening.
A climate change protester has been arrested for trying to confront Sir David Attenborough as he dined at a Michelin-starred fish restaurant
Sir David, 96, had spent Thursday in the harbour town of Weymouth to film a TV documentary about fishing and went to the nearby restaurant in the evening
Emma Smart, 45, previously came under fire when it was revealed she and her partner Andy drove 80,975 miles visiting 50 countries in 858 days in an 18-year-old Toyota from 2012 to 2016
Mrs Smart, an activist for the campaign group Animal Rebellion, allegedly caused a disturbance at the Catch at the Old Fish Market in Weymouth, Dorset
Mrs Smart was previously imprisoned over an Insulate Britain climate protest. Pictured: The Catch at the Old Fish Market in Dorset
Mrs Smart previously came under fire when it was revealed she and her partner Andy drove 80,975 miles visiting 50 countries in 858 days in an 18-year-old Toyota from 2012 to 2016.
She was also given four-month sentence for Insulate Britain’s M25 stunt in October 2021 and went on hunger strike in April following a protest with 24 fellow scientists at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
In a statement later released by Smart through Animal Rebellion, she said she targeted the restaurant as its ‘expensive menu was a symbol of excess and inequality.’
Mrs Smart said: ‘The Catch is a symbol of excess and inequality in today’s world, Weymouth has average wages amongst the lowest in the UK and is at huge risk of sea level rises.
‘Yet this restaurant still continues business as usual amongst the worst cost-of-living crisis many will ever experience.
‘Sir David is in a unique position to tell the truth about the biodiversity crisis.
‘He has the chance to leave a legacy of love, care, and of being the forerunner of a better world.’
Dorset Police said Mrs Smart, from Weymouth, was arrested after allegedly causing a disturbance and refusing to comply with officers after they asked her to leave the restaurant.
She was asked to leave the venue before being dragged out and detained by police
Mrs Smart approached Sir David’s table and tried to deliver a letter to him and have a five minute chat about ‘telling the truth’ about climate change
In a statement later released by Smart through Animal Rebellion, she said she targeted the restaurant as its ‘expensive menu was a symbol of excess and inequality’
Dorset Police said Mrs Smart, from Weymouth, was arrested after allegedly causing a disturbance and refusing to comply with officers after they asked her to leave the restaurant
She was charged with failing to comply with a Section 35 direction and will appear at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court next month.
According to Animal Rebellion it is a group calling for a plant-based food system and a mass re-wilding programme.
Mrs Smart was previously imprisoned over an Insulate Britain climate protest.
During her time in the prison she was moved to the hospital wing after undertaking a hunger strike over her sentence. She was released in January.
Mrs Smart’s letter to the climate documentary presenter read: ‘Dear David, I still want to meet you!
‘I’m from Weymouth – my community will be devastated in the climate crisis.
‘Today is the one year anniversary that I went to prison for peacefully protesting government inaction.
‘There are 35 ordinary people in prison right now for environmental protest.
‘Please speak up for them. For all life on earth.
‘I’m a scientist. A biologist. Please meet with me – just five min.’
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