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

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Rushin, Tess (16 April 2018). "What you need to know about Sir David Attenborough". LeicestershireLive. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021 . Retrieved 22 August 2021.Blum, Jeremy (10 October 2020). "David Attenborough Calls Out The 'Excesses' Of Capitalism In A World Facing Climate Change". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020 . Retrieved 12 October 2020. Is population growth out of control?". BBC News. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021 . Retrieved 30 October 2021. In 1957, the BBC Natural History Unit was formally established in Bristol. Attenborough was asked to join it, but declined, not wishing to move from London where he and his young family were settled. Instead, he formed his own department, the Travel and Exploration Unit, [29] which allowed him to continue to front Zoo Quest as well as produce other documentaries, notably the Travellers' Tales and Adventure series. [29] In the early 1960s, Attenborough resigned from the permanent staff of the BBC to study for a postgraduate degree in social anthropology at the London School of Economics, interweaving his study with further filming. [30] However, he accepted an invitation to return to the BBC as controller of BBC Two before he could finish the degree. [31] BBC administration

In 2011, Fothergill gave Attenborough a more prominent role in Frozen Planet, a major series on the natural history of the polar regions; Attenborough appeared on screen and authored the final episode, in addition to performing voiceover duties. Attenborough introduced and narrated the Unit's first 4K production Life Story. For Planet Earth II (2016), Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter, with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer. [68] [69] Attenborough at a screening of Great Barrier Reef, 2015 Plesiosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide". Dinosauria.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009 . Retrieved 4 November 2009.Bawden, Tom (22 December 2014). "Following a plant and a spider, Sir David Attenborough now has a beetle named after him". The Independent. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014 . Retrieved 30 December 2014. Spanish: Una vida en nuestro planeta: Mi testimonio y una visión para el futuro. Translated by Tomás Fernández Aúz. Madrid: Crítica. 2021. ISBN 9788491993117. Attenborough has joined the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other top scientists in signing a campaign statement co-ordinated by the British Humanist Association (BHA). The statement calls for "creationism to be banned from the school science curriculum and for evolution to be taught more widely in schools". [157] BBC and public service broadcasting AKDN launches Earthshot Prize in partnership with Prince William". Business Standard. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. Lehr, Edgar; von May, Rudolf (2017). "A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Craugastoridae, Pristimantis) from high elevations of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru". ZooKeys (660): 17–42. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.660.11394. PMC 5549528. PMID 28794672.

Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after Attenborough". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016 . Retrieved 6 May 2016. Attenborough returned to prehistoric life with Dinosaurs: The Final Day and Prehistoric Planet aired in April and May 2022 respectively. Five years after the success of Life on Earth, the BBC released The Living Planet. [51] This time, Attenborough built his series around the theme of ecology, the adaptations of living things to their environment. It was another critical and commercial success, generating huge international sales for the BBC. In 1990, The Trials of Life completed the original Life trilogy, looking at animal behaviour through the different stages of life. [52]David Attenborough climate change TV show a 'call to arms' ". BBC News. 19 April 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021 . Retrieved 27 August 2021. After leaving the navy, Attenborough took a position editing children's science textbooks for a publishing company. He soon became disillusioned with the work and in 1950 applied for a job as a radio talk producer with the BBC. [25] 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. [26] Attenborough, like most Britons at that time, did not own a television, and he had seen only one programme in his life. [27]