Half a million gazelle. [wildebeest snorting] For every single predator on the Serengeti, there are more than 100 prey animals. But within only a few years, the nets across the globe were coming in empty. [protester over megaphone] We are men and women, and we speak for children, and were all saying, Please stop killing the whales.. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, An hour-long episode will actually only take him about two hours to record, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history, but now that it was visible, it was no longer acceptable. Pollinating insects disappear. Which countries are best prepared for the green tech transition? The ocean is a critical ally in our battle to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Life had no option but to rebuild. Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. [Attenborough] If we can change the way we live on Earth, an alternative future comes into view. We will all share in the benefits. A celebration of Sir David Attenborough's extraordinary career in natural history. Ive experienced the living world firsthand in all its variety and wonder. The Second World War was over, technology was making our lives easier. The removal of people from this area has seen forest take over the town, and rare wildlife has returned. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. A monoculture of oil palm. We are already in trouble. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. Despite its size, the Netherlands is now the worlds second largest exporter of food. We must fix our sights on keeping one and a half degrees within reach. 1997 WORLD POPULATION: 5.9 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 360 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 46%. The thing we rely upon for every element of the lives we lead. It also emphasizes that it's not about taking away our "lives" to save the earth, but to change those small things in the everyday life, each and every person and family, to make a huge difference together. Not just ruined it. We must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. A Life on our Planet paints this picture with enough clarity to have my 12-year old daughter in tears. The nation's favourite broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, returned to our screens recently with the launch of Planet Earth II.To celebrate Attenborough and the amazing work he has done over . Sparkling coastal seas. In a single small patch of tropical rainforest, there could be 700 different species of tree, as many as there are in the whole of North America. It worked out the secret of life long ago. He talked about his new docu-series, "A Perfect Planet," and why the. We are overusing the earth's resources. Web. The problem is that our fishing fleets are just as good at finding those hot spots as are the fish. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. And there I was, actually being asked to explore these places and record the wonders of the natural world for people back home. We invented farming. This is not about saving our planet its about saving ourselves. Did that number stop rising and start to drop, as a result of commitments made here? Otherwise, this is brilliant! With all these things, there is one overriding principle. A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda. Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703. At the age of 92, Attenborough remains committed to that mission. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. Easily integrate Rev using our robust APIs to start building your product quickly. David Attenborough plays back sound recordings to astonished villagers in Sierra Leone. Gorillas are the world'slargest primates andare gentle giants that have strong family ties. In 1950, a Japanese family was likely to have three or more children. And ways to harvest our forests sustainably. There was nothing left to restrict us. 2020 WORLD POPULATION: 7.8 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 415 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 35%, Science predicts that were I born today, I would be witness to the following. Its a sanctuary for wild animals that are very rare elsewhere. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. Working together to benefit from the energy of the sun and the minerals of the earth. In the northern regions, the temperatures would lift in March, triggering spring, and stay high until they dipped in October and brought about autumn. As much now as I did when I was a boy. The Holocene was our Garden of Eden. Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. And there, only a few yards away, we spotted a great furry red form swaying in the trees. Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. We can solve the problems we now face by embracing this reality. To restore stability to our planet, we must restore its biodiversity. If working apart, we are force powerful enough to destabilize our planet, surely, working together, we are powerful enough to save it. 47 programmes available. Get a weekly digest of the weeks most important transcripts in your inbox. David Attenborough comes face to face with a baby rhino and asks what the future holds for this little one. He meets the local people who are standing side by side with the wildlife at this pivotal moment in their history. Required fields are marked *. We depend on support from readers like you. A thick belt of jungles around the equator has piled plant on plant to capture as much of the suns energy as possible, adding moisture and oxygen to the global air currents. Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years. Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. David Attenborough talks about his longstanding fascination with discovering fossils. There is a double incentive to cut down forests. And tree diversity is the key to a rainforest. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. But we can make them the only source. David Attenborough: (00:48) David discusses ornamental decorations with the Biami tribe, without a translator. To accentuate the seriousness of the situation, these experts lean hard on metaphors we hear a lot about falling dominoes, tipping points, danger zones, runaway trains, open windows, the sides of coins and, most whimsically, planetary friends and planetary foes.. [Attenborough] By the time Life on Earth aired in 1979, I had entered my 50s. David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities. Weve come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. [protester in English] Hello, Boctok. David Attenboroughs latest nature documentary on Netflix may be his greatest yet. Finally, Attenborough urges us to listen to experts scientists may have been illustrating the problems for several decades, but politicians have preferred to play the short game and ignore the evidence. Even as some of us were setting foot on the moon, others were still leading such a life in the most remote parts of the planet. Scientists call it the Holocene. For 10,000 years, the average temperature has not wavered up or down by more than one degree Celsius. But the longer we leave it, the more difficult itll be to do something about it. The start of my career in my 20s coincided with the advent of global air travel. We found ourselves in an unusually benign period with predictable seasons and reliable weather. Well, weve destroyed it. On iPlayer. There are many differences between humans and the rest of the species on earth, but one that has been expressed is that we alone are able to imagine the future. Most of our diseases were under control. Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast have harbored nurseries of fish species that, when mature, then range into open waters. Mountains 58 mins Humans like to think that once they have climbed a mountain, they have somehow conquered it. Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows. [Attenborough] It was a stark contrast to the world I knew. and the commentary has organic flow . In the 1950s, Borneo was three-quarters covered with rainforest. As well as appearing on screen, he was very involved in the script. All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed, all in a multitude of colors, all unbelievably beautiful. Even one as vast as the ocean. The film traces his 60-year career, outlining how steeply the health of the planet has declined in his lifetime. [Attenborough on video] Climbing over the tightly-packed bodies is the only way across the crowd. David Attenborough: (03:16) Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our PlanetNot rated. When it comes to the land, we must radically reduce the area we use to farm, so that we can make space for returning wilderness. Rewilding the world is simpler than you might think. Biologists warn extinction denial is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory, They have conned us out of our lands: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest, Expansion of Mennonite farmland in Bolivia encroaches on Indigenous land, Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay, Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in, Colombia: Scientists explore remote seamounts to protect hammerhead sharks, Kelp forests contribute $500 billion to global economy, study shows, Parasites of the Caribbean: Study pinpoints cause of sea urchin die-off, Norway proposes opening Germany-sized area of its continental shelf to deep-sea mining, Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lulas climate promises, Ill keep fighting: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku, Dont buy Brazilian gold: Q&A with Indigenous leader Jnior Hekurari Yanomami, Report sums up Bolsonaros destruction legacy and Amazons next critical steps, Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy, Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy, Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights, Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguays Gran Chaco, You dont kill people to protect forests: New Thai parks chief raises alarm, Vietnams environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space, We lost the biggest ally: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereiras legacy, Murders of 2 Patax leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office, Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesias Gorontalo, After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantans veteran forester persists, Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64, A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatras forest fire hell, Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example, From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the peace farmers of Colombia, For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection, Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics, Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules, To build its green capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest, Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams. The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. Millions of people rendered homeless. [thunder rumbling] [lowing] On the tropical plains, the dry and rainy seasons would switch every year like clockwork. Ive always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, to learn about the wilds beyond. Whole habitats would soon start to disappear. In my time, Ive experienced the warming of Arctic summers. David Attenborough with an armadillo on BBC TV in 1963. . As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. What we see happening today is just the latest chapter in a global process spanning millennia. David Attenborough. Right now, were facing a manmade disaster of global scale. Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms. We need to rediscover how to be sustainable. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence. We now have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves, and restore the rich, healthy, and wonderful world that we inherited. https://www.scripts.com/writer/david_attenborough/3824, Complete biography of David Attenborough , David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive. And it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly. The Big Picture. It was only in the 50s that large fleets first ventured out into international waters to reap the open ocean harvest across the globe. In one act, this would transform the open ocean from a place exhausted by subsidized fishing fleets to a wilderness that will help us all in our efforts to combat climate change. It always counts to do whatever it takes to save the humanity. David Attenborough: (06:09) The future was going to be exciting. David Attenborough narrates a natural history of the oceans. When they do, theyre able to gather the concentrated shoals with ease. At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets. This was before any of us were aware that there were problems. It was a rediscovery of a fundamental truth. It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact across Europe. We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon the finite natural world about us. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series that form the Life collection, which form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on . The pace of change was getting faster and faster. Above, very few. That non-human world is gone. we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up. We seem to have broken loose from the restrictions that have governed the activities and numbers of other animals. Sunlight, wind, water and geothermal. The stability we all depend on is breaking. Yet the way we humans live on Earth now is sending biodiversity into a decline. We accept the evidence for 3.5 degrees increase is disputable and the commentary should have reflected that, therefore the line is being removed from the episode repeat (10 February) and the iPlayer version replaced. The Private Life of Plants is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first shown in the United Kingdom from 11 January 1995.. A study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants, it was the second of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth.Each of the six 50-minute episodes discusses . Your excellencies, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, as you spend the next two weeks, debating, negotiating, persuading and compromising, as you surely must, its easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single number, the concentration of carbon in our atmosphere. We cant cut down rainforests forever, and anything that we cant do forever is by definition unsustainable. They are the best technology nature has for locking away carbon. Like "For life to truly thrive on this planet, there must be immense biodiversity. Episode guide 1. Theyd never seen sloths before. Wild Isles. A tale of the smartest species doomed by that all too human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short term goals. Its been staring us in the face all along. Without large fish and other marine predators, the oceanic nutrient cycle stutters. They discovered that the Serengeti herds required an enormous area of healthy grassland to function. Soon after, missions to space showed the Earth as a lonely, isolated rock covered with water, and we began to recognize that we needed to look after our home. The healthier the marine habitat, the more fish there will be, and the more there will be to eat. Which is why weve cut down three trillion trees across the world. Make your content more accessible to people with disabilities. [imperceptible] Theyve always been a place beyond imagination with scenery unlike anything else on earth and unique species adapted to a life in the extreme. It revealed a cold reality. I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used to people. Your email address will not be published. David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockstrm examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted. World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. Large parts of the earth are uninhabitable. We have a lot more than just climate change to worry about, argues this nature doc narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Complete biography of David Attenborough . Our planet, vulnerable and isolated. The Netherlands is one of the worlds most densely-populated countries. At some point in the future, the human population will peak for the very first time. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? We had very little understanding of how the living world actually worked. The veteran naturalist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough has told world leaders at the COP26 climate summit to "rewrite our story," and that future generations . And it lived about 180 million years ago. For 65 million years, its been at work reconstructing the living world until we come to the world we know our time. And the extent of the polar ice has been critical, reflecting sunlight back off its white surface, cooling the whole earth. Breaking Boundaries may have interesting even critical information to convey about the future of our species and the fate of the planet. The living world cant operate without a healthy ocean and neither can we. Planet Earth: With Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough, Nikolay Drozdov, Thomas Anguti Johnston. Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other. [Attenborough] By working hard to raise people out of poverty, giving all access to healthcare, and enabling girls in particular to stay in school as long as possible, we can make it peak sooner and at a lower level. From Pole to Pole 59 mins This episode journeys across the planet, from pole to pole, following the influence of the sun and discovering how its seasonal journey affects the lives of all who live on earth. If we all had a largely plant-based diet, we would need only half the land we use at the moment. The series includes Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), Life in the Freezer (about . This is a fundamentally important documentary by a man trusted around the world, so ideally, this documentary should be seen by everyone, but the brevity of the biodiversity crisis, the potential impacts and the solutions would be educational to politicians worldwide. The earth is not "living" because of us, but we are living because of the earth. [Attenborough] We had broken loose. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. We need to not just to talk about what we can do, but to do what we can. Vast forests. Watch clips from the programmes being broadcast to celebrate David Attenborough's 90th. Energy everywhere will be more affordable. The measure that greatly determines global temperature and the changes in that one number is the clearest way to chart our own story, for it defines our relationship with our world. 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