Propagation of genes may not satisfy a human, so we would like to think that nature is brimming with meaningful activities until we lay eyes on a period cicada, buried seventeen years only to mate. Attenborough has received the title Honorary Fellow from Clare College, Cambridge (1980), [182] the Zoological Society of London (1998), [183] the Linnean Society (1999), [184] the Institute of Biology (Now the Royal Society of Biology) (2000), [185] and the Society of Antiquaries (2007). Alongside the Life series, Attenborough continued to work on other television documentaries, mainly in the natural history genre. He serves as a vice-president of The Conservation Volunteers, [117] vice-president of Fauna and Flora International, [118] president of Butterfly Conservation [119] and president emeritus of Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Our Planet is billed as an Attenborough documentary with a difference but it shies away from uncomfortable truths".

The BBC also commissioned Atlantic Productions to make a three-part, Attenborough-fronted series Great Barrier Reef in 2015.Innovation was another factor in Life on Earth 's success: new film-making techniques were devised to get the shots Attenborough wanted, with a focus on events and animals that were up till then unfilmed. This was followed by Extinction: The Facts, which is partly based on the 2019 IPBES report on the decline of biodiversity. The result is a book that was a joy to read and which flew by, which is good because I have four other Attenborough books to work through. According to Attenborough, improving women's rights around the world is an effective way "to limit our birth rate.

In the course of achieving it, they must face a whole succession of problems as they go through their lives. He has broken down the book into 12 chapters and uses an amazing variety of animals to illustrate the chapter theme. Advances in macro photography made it possible to capture the natural behaviour of very small creatures for the first time, and in 2005, Life in the Undergrowth introduced audiences to the world of invertebrates.The series contains a number of memorable two shots of Attenborough and his subjects, which included chimpanzees, a blue whale and a grizzly bear. While in charge of BBC Two, Attenborough turned down Terry Wogan's job application to be a presenter on the channel, stating that there weren't any suitable vacancies. The same team reunited for Planet Earth (2006), the biggest nature documentary ever made for television and the first BBC wildlife series to be shot in high definition.