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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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While Attenborough's earlier work focused more on the wonders of the natural world, his later work has been more vocal in support of environmental causes. He is widely considered a national treasure in the UK, although he himself does not embrace the term. However, the increased urgency of environmental messaging in films such as Extinction: The Facts, which depicts the continuing sixth mass extinction, [109] Climate Change – The Facts and A Life on Our Planet from 2019 and 2020 received praise.

It was written by Attenborough and Hughes, who was assisted by the World Wide Fund for Nature's science team.He is a patron of Population Matters, [141] a UK charity advocating for family planning, sustainable consumption and proposed sustainable human population. He strongly opposes creationism and its offshoot " intelligent design", saying that the results of a survey that found a quarter of science teachers in state schools believe that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science lessons was "really terrible". But they are all the more comprehensible and engaging for they are the trials of life that we also face ourselves. During the Second World War, through a British volunteer network known as the Refugee Children's Movement, his parents also fostered two Jewish refugee girls from Germany. In 2003, Attenborough launched an appeal on behalf of the World Land Trust to create a rainforest reserve in Ecuador in memory of Christopher Parsons, the producer of Life on Earth and a personal friend, who had died the previous year.

Its forerunner, The World About Us, was created by Attenborough in 1969, as a vehicle for colour television.As I am sure most readers would have seen this, and many of Attenborough’s oeuvre of animal life documentaries. In September 2013, he commented: "If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop.

Protecting a third of coastal areas from fishing could allow fish populations to thrive and the remaining area would be sufficient for human consumption. There are twelve essays explaining different animal behaviours, some of them absolutely bewildering, tbh :P I liked the way in which they are structured: from birth to reproduction, going through feeding, fighting, socialization. In between, we follow mothers (and fathers) rearing their young (or foisting them onto unsuspecting others), feeding them, them learning to hunt or finding the right plants themselves, then them finding a place to live and securing territory (either through cooperation or being the best adapted/strongest), before they have to find a mate and begin the cycle all over again. There is a documentary series with several seasons that the international treasure presented many many years ago.I thought it was well organized and flowed well, and described the animal actions in a way that made it easy to visualize. On his broadcasting and passion for nature, NPR stated he "roamed the globe and shared his discoveries and enthusiasms with his patented semi-whisper way of narrating". The result was The Private Life of Plants (1995), which showed plants as dynamic organisms by using time-lapse photography to speed up their growth, and went on to earn a Peabody Award.

These programmes tell a particular story and I'm sure others will come along and tell it much better than I did, but I do hope that if people watch it in 50 years' time, it will still have something to say about the world we live in. Prompted by an enthusiastic ornithologist at the BBC Natural History Unit, Attenborough then turned his attention to birds.A new species of fan-throated lizard from coastal Kerala in southern India was named Sitana attenboroughii in his honour when it was described in 2018. Sir David Attenborough escribe (y lo traducen) de manera igualmente hipnótica que cuando habla en sus documentales. These repletes are kept in galleries down the ground and are fed with the honeydew and nectar collected by worker ants. David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet leaves viewers in tears as Netflix doc reveals devastation of natural world". He has honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Durham University (1982) [175] and the University of Cambridge (1984) [176] and honorary Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford (1988) [176] and the University of Ghent (1997).

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