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". [2] He is widely considered a national treasure in the UK, although he himself does not embrace the term. [3] [4] [5] He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough, [6] and older brother of motor executive John Attenborough. [7] Life and family 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 In the 1990s, Attenborough continued to use the "Life" title for a succession of authored documentaries. In 1993, he presented Life in the Freezer, the first television series to survey the natural history of Antarctica. Although past normal retirement age, he then embarked on a number of more specialised surveys of the natural world, beginning with plants. They proved a difficult subject for his producers, who had to deliver hours of television featuring what are essentially immobile objects. 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. [53] A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future is a 2020 book by documentarian David Attenborough and director-producer Jonnie Hughes. It follows Attenborough's career as a presenter and natural historian, along with the decline in wildlife and rising carbon emissions during the period. Attenborough warns of the effects that climate change and biodiversity loss will have in the near future, and offers action which can be taken to prevent natural disaster. A companion book to the film David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, it was positively received by critics.

the BBC per minute in almost every category is as cheap as you can find anywhere in the world and produces the best quality. [...] The BBC has gone through swingeing staff cuts. It has been cut to the bone, if you divert licence fee money elsewhere, you cut quality and services. [...] There is a lot of people who want to see the BBC weakened. They talk of this terrible tax of the licence fee. Yet it is the best bargain that is going. Four radio channels and god knows how many TV channels. It is piffling. [158] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Attenborough advocated on behalf of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and its conservation efforts, which have been impacted by the economic fallout from the pandemic. [125] In 2020, Attenborough was named as a member of the Earthshot prize Council, [126] an initiative of Prince William to find solutions to environmental issues. [127] [128] He is a patron of the Friends of Richmond Park and serves on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. [129]David Attenborough lays out 7 actions to save the world". MINDFOOD. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 September 2021.

Governance | TCV". The Conservation Volunteers. 20 March 2012. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021 . Retrieved 5 September 2021. Meerkats United". WildFilmistory.org. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010 . Retrieved 20 January 2010. Dochartaigh, Kerri (26 October 2020). "A Life on Our Planet: David Attenborough's devastating but essential call to action". The Irish Times . Retrieved 21 November 2020. Is population growth out of control?". BBC News. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021 . Retrieved 30 October 2021. Alongside the Life series, Attenborough continued to work on other television documentaries, mainly in the natural history genre. He wrote and presented a series on man's influence on the natural history of the Mediterranean Basin, The First Eden, in 1987. Two years later, he demonstrated his passion for fossils in Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives. [58] In 1990, he worked on the BBC's Prisoners of Conscience series where he highlighted the case of the Sudanese poet Mahjoub Sharif. [59]He has explained that he feels the evidence all over the planet clearly shows evolution to be the best way to explain the diversity of life, and that "as far as [he's] concerned, if there is a supreme being then he chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world". In a BBC Four interview with Mark Lawson, he was asked if he at any time had any religious faith. He replied simply, "no". [151] He said "It never really occurred to me to believe in God". [152] Spanish: Una vida en nuestro planeta: Mi testimonio y una visión para el futuro. Translated by Tomás Fernández Aúz. Madrid: Crítica. 2021. ISBN 9788491993117. Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world". BBC Teach. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021 . Retrieved 31 October 2021.