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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

But if you get in a helicopter, you see thatthat is a strip about half a mile wide

But if you get in a helicopter, you see that
that is a strip about half a mile wide

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But if you get in a helicopter,
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you see that that is a strip about half a mile wide.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:33:28
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Silverback Films,Altitude Film Entertainment,WWF-UK

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Movie Summary

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
And beyond that strip, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
And beyond that strip,
There is a double incentive to cut down forests. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:17
There is a double incentive to cut down forests.
Which is why we've cut down three trillion trees across the world. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
Which is why we've cut down three trillion trees across...
What we see happening today - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
What we see happening today
The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of orangutan - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of or...
We can't cut down rainforests forever, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
We can't cut down rainforests forever,
If we do things that are unsustainable, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:15
If we do things that are unsustainable,
Even one as vast as the ocean. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
Even one as vast as the ocean.
This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet,
It was... an astonishing vision of a completely unknown world, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:11
It was... an astonishing vision of a completely unknown worl...
All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed,
And all of them completely undisturbed by your presence. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
And all of them completely undisturbed by your presence.
For much of its expanse, the ocean is largely empty. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:16
For much of its expanse, the ocean is largely empty.
In such places, huge shoals of fish gather. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
In such places, huge shoals of fish gather.
The problem is that our fishing fleets - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:15
The problem is that our fishing fleets
It was only in the '50s that large fleets - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:19
It was only in the '50s that large fleets
At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:22
At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets.
Without large fish and other marine predators, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
Without large fish and other marine predators,
The predators help to keep nutrients in the ocean's sunlit waters, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:10
The predators help to keep nutrients in the ocean's sun...
Without predators, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
Without predators,