Where does that come from? The deforestation of the Amazon is primarily to grow crops to feed livestock. [indistinct chatter] We must use this opportunity to create a more equal world and our motivation should not be fear, but hope. Its simple. So we've been saying for 20-plus years that this exploitation of our environment is driving pandemics. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, The Green Planet takes viewers on a journey into the hidden world of plants, to experience it from their perspective and on their timescale . The decisions made as we rebuild our economies are critical. The series focuses on the breadth of the diversity of habitats around the world, including the Arctic wilderness, the deep sea, the vast landscapes of Africa and the diverse jungles of South America. For much of humanitys ancient history, that number bounced wildly between 180 and 300, and so too did global temperatures. We're not just losing nice things to look at. Easily integrate Rev using our robust APIs to start building your product quickly. This is that moment. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. This is important for males to find mates or when young will go find new territories. Instructions Preparation David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Official Trailer | Netflix Watch on Transcript Task 1 Task 2 Discussion Have you seen any of David Attenborough's films? We're a group of 12- and 13-year-olds come to tell you adults, you must change your ways.". Sir David Attenborough explains how we should all work together globally to ensure our oceans thrive. There were tensions between the park and communities. David Attenborough: (03:16) There's a wave of revolution going around, especially with young people. That desperate hope, ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies, is why the world is looking to you and why you are here. If working apart, we are force powerful enough to destabilize our planet, surely, working together, we are powerful enough to save it. Gaia 2.0 Could humans add some level of self-awareness to Earths Self-Regulation. But it's the rate of extinction. Soy. And that is scary. Industry-leading accurate legal transcription to ensure you dont miss a statement. That must change" (qtd in Hook 8). "[21] Stuart McGurk of British GQ said "Its hard not to see this as a direct rebuke of the BBCs nature documentaries: take one well-worn spectacular of the natural world, shoot it even more spectacularly than the BBC ever did and structure your whole opening episode around the idea that, without taking things like global warming seriously without putting it front and centre about any show youre making about the natural world, because how could you not then pretty soon theyll be nothing left to film so beautifully.
With the Netflix Series "Our Planet," David Attenborough Delivers an This topic is more fully explored in the Learning Guide to Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, but in short, animal agriculture (production of meat and dairy) is responsible for more pollution than the entire transportation sector. A few of these entries are shown in the film. TWM offers a worksheet for students to review before seeing the film and then to fill out after they have watched the movie. Our Planet is an inspiring nature documentary series narrated by the renowned Sir David Attenborough. Biodiversity the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems It encompasses the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life. We shape the future of the planet irretrievably by the decisions we take in this next few years. Not all assignments reach all Anchor Standards. I might not be here to see it, but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planet's ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity and all its inhabitants. Complete the sentences with words from the . Modern fishing is an industrial operation run by huge corporations, boats, factories, ships. We must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. The minute we build a road in there, we start getting exposed. This film is one mans witness statement about the degradation of the worlds environment over his lifetime. Fatu, no, come on.
New David Attenborough series about Britain and Ireland likely to be David Attenborough, in full Sir David Frederick Attenborough, (born May 8, 1926, London, England), English broadcaster, writer, and naturalist noted for his innovative educational television programs, especially the nine-part Life series. Lulu was a part of that pod. So, for example, we could begin work on restoring degraded land. The critical thing is that there is now enough land that's already been cleared to sustain the levels of production that we need. So, whats stopping us? The body of this transcript consists of David Attenborough's narration from Extinction: The Facts. But over the next few decades, the situation would start to change. WWF-UK is a registered charity in England and Wales 1081247 and in Scotland SC039593 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales 4016725. that had welled up from the deep in the past and had now solidified. If we all contribute to the effort, the change will be enormous. If there are enough interested students this project can be turned into a competition with outside judges picking the winners. He comments that all the evolution that led to the extinct species was undone by the five great extinctions. This is Fatu. Each one can consume 70 million ants a year. A lot of that clearance is driven by demand on the other side of the world. While not required for the lesson plan, teachers may want to review it. The light, comic touches that made for lovely little moments in Planet Earth are overshadowed if not spoiled entirely, by the traumatic lessons put front and centre. Cells start to die tempering the growth rate of the population for the first time. Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists, but I have lived it. Under Title 17 U.S.C. And we have always opted for the big catch for a short term. The problem is, as you remove more and more of the adult fish, particularly the larger sized fish, you end up with fewer and fewer of the eggs and the fry, and there's simply not enough for the population to recover. It just shows what we can achieve when we put our minds to it. But we drive it, actually.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Debates & Ideas Speakola They were on the brink of extinction. Then talk about ways to help reduce environmental degradation in your lives. But within a finite system this wont continue forever its not sustainable. We have over 200 rangers, and their jobs is to see every gorilla and check on the habitat. [7], The series premiere was held on 4 April 2019, at the Natural History Museum in London. Clean-up efforts are ongoing and are not expected to be completed until 2065. Because you hadn't pulled all that data together, people hadn't realised that we have a very serious crisis on our hands. The trade is highly profitable and it's unlikely to stop. The plastics industry? And either somebody got infected and travelled to Wuhan themselves or sent animals that they were shipping into the wildlife trade into those wet markets and then the virus exploded from there. Narrated by David Attenborough, the five-episode second season will premiere globally in a five-day week-long event beginning May 22 on Apple [] Sir David Attenborough was 28-years-old when he convinced his bosses at the BBC to let him travel the world and document his explorations. 35 & 60. 31% of all emerging diseases have originated through the process of land use change. Multimedia: Anchor Standard #7 for Reading (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). Last year, 2019, it was just over 100 tonnes of scales. The first people into those logging camps go out and hunt bushmeat and pick up the viruses. One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. One part of the colony's a nursery where all the kids live and the parents fly out every night to get food. Were working on all the solutions. There are four Asian pangolin species and four African. Even in the UK, we've converted many areas that have been natural wetlands, which would absorb the water. And so we think Covid-19 maybe even started there. We already employ technology to make our lives more comfortable and to increase the number of people who can live on the planet. These commodities often provide the mainstay of countries' economies, but many are produced in ways that are not sustainable. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. Switch to a clean energy provider; 4. But when humans destroy habitat, the large predators and herbivores disappear first. News report - "The UN panel of experts has found that one million animal and plant species face extinction". How to Save Our Grasslands Find out from Sir David Attenborough how changing the way we eat and a revolution in farming can save our planet's wild grasslands. To make things worse, those animals are very stressed, and we know that animals that are stressed shed viruses at higher rates. We should be restoring not destroying wild habitats. Cultured meat, also called clean meat, is Meat for consumption produced as a cell culture of animal cells rather than from the slaughter of animals.
David Attenborough Quotes (Author of A Life on Our Planet) We must do. In David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, Keith Scholey of Silverback Films and Colin Butfield of the World Wildlife Fund bring us Sir David's witness statement. [6], In November 2018, David Attenborough was announced as the narrator, with the release date of 5 April 2019 also announced. It's extremely distressing to see how these animals are killed. More of this and Our Planet might have been a meaningful addition to the canon of natural history series. Today, those whove done the least to cause this problem, are being the hardest hit.