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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

Rainforests are particularlyprecious habitats. More than half of the specieson land live...

Rainforests are particularly
precious habitats. [birds chirping] More than half of the species
on land live here

Full Transcript

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Rainforests are particularly precious habitats.
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[birds chirping]
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More than half of the species on land live here.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:54
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.
They're places in which evolution's talent for design soars. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
They're places in which evolution's talent for des...
Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small numbers. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:13
Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small...
Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young,
Without this training, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:43
Without this training,
A habitat that is dead in comparison. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
A habitat that is dead in comparison.
And you see this curtain of green with occasionally birds in it, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:09
And you see this curtain of green with occasionally birds in...
But if you get in a helicopter, - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:06
But if you get in a helicopter,
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.