Chris Packham has won a High Court libel claim over claims he misled the public into donating to a wildlife charity.
The presented was involved in a case against three men who said he "manipulated" people into donating to a charity to rescue tigers from circuses.
He sued them over nine articles in the Country Squire Magazine which claimed he knew the animals were well looked after.
Chris denied the allegations, which concern the Isle of Wight’s Wildheart Trust in which he is involved.
The naturalist sued the editor of the magazine, Dominic Wightman, as well as writer Nigel Bean and a third man, Paul Read.
Mr Packham won the case against Wightman and Bean but Justice Saini dismissed his claim against Read, who argued he was a ‘mere proofreader.’
The two men have now been ordered to pay £90,000 in damages to TV personality, according to PA.
When announcing the ruling, Justice Saini said Mr Packham "did not commit any acts of fraud or dishonesty."
"In short, Mr Packham did not lie and each of his own statements was made with a genuine belief in its truth.
"There was no fraud of any type committed by him in making the fundraising statements," the judge said.
He added that Wightman and Bean had failed "to come even close to establishing the substantial truth" of the allegation Packham defrauded anyone in relation to the tigers.
They instead "went straight for the most serious allegations of actual fraud and dishonesty," rather than merely alleging Packham had made "some lack of care or negligence" in his statements about the tigers.
He added: "Any investigative journalism quickly gave way … to increasingly hyperbolic and vitriolic smearing of Mr Packham, with further unsubstantiated allegations of dishonesty regarding peat-burning and the trust’s insurance gratuitously thrown in."
Wightman had claimed Packham "dishonestly raised funds from the public by stating that tigers had been rescued from a circus where they had been mistreated, whereas in fact, as the claimant knew, the tigers had been well-treated and had been donated by the circus."
He also claimed Packham was seen as a "dangerous activist" by "traditional countrysiders."
It was noted in the judge’s ruling that the defendants "targeted Mr Packham as a person against whom they had an agenda."
In his evidence, Mr Packham said the five tigers, which had been used in a Spanish circus, had been left in a holding facility before they came into the care of animal welfare group AAP.
They were then moved to the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary as their "forever home" and said the sanctuary was part of a "chain of rescue".
