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

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The sheer amount of things he's seen and experienced is enough to fill a host of books but it is also extremely fascinating to witness the changes in our world through his eyes.

By January 2013, Attenborough had collected 32 honorary degrees from British universities, [172] more than any other person.

That being said, the lack of a visual/audio component in book-form really takes away one of the most compelling parts of the documentary experience that he is most often associated with. Attenborough attended and spoke at COP26 as the "People's Advocate" for the event, and urged world leaders to act to reduce emissions.

Clark found that it "may not be entirely original but it is an important message from a messenger without parallel". Revealing he receives as many as 70 letters a day, Sir David continued: “I do my very best [to respond to them all]. David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet leaves viewers in tears as Netflix doc reveals devastation of natural world". In 2018, a new species of phytoplankton, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta, was named to honour The Blue Planet, the TV documentary presented by Attenborough, and to recognise his contribution to promoting understanding of the oceanic environment.Like many of his other companion books to documentaries, this one goes into more detail about particular animals or animal behaviors with plenty of examples. We learn how a species has survived the ever-changing landscape of our climate to thrive, survive, evolve or decimate. 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).

In 2009, he co-wrote and narrated Life, a ten-part series focussing on extraordinary animal behaviour, [65] and narrated Nature's Great Events, which showed how seasonal changes trigger major natural spectacles.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. Altogether the ‘ Trials of Life’ – and the entire ‘Life’ series – is a very good introduction to natural history, which apart from the tonnage of information it presents is further enriched by the energetic, ever curious mind of Attenborough. In his 2020 documentary film David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, Attenborough advocates for people to adopt a vegetarian diet or to reduce meat consumption to save wildlife, noting that "the planet can't support billions of meat-eaters.

Although he was rejected for this job, his CV later attracted the interest of Mary Adams, head of the Talks (factual broadcasting) department of the BBC's fledgling television service. In January 2009, the BBC commissioned Attenborough to provide a series of 20 ten-minute monologues covering the history of nature. Although this is the third and final book in David Attenborough's trilogy "Life", like all his books, your experience is not diminished by reading it out of sequence.His documentary career began in the 1950s when he began working for the BBC, a British public service broadcaster. In 2021, Attenborough told the leaders of the 47th G7 summit that "tackling climate change was now as much a political challenge as it was a scientific or technological one" and urged more action. A companion book to the film David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, it was positively received by critics. Later the same year he filmed elephants in Tanzania, and in 1969 he made a three-part series on the cultural history of the Indonesian island of Bali.

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