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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

What we see happening today is just the latest chapterin a global process spanning...

What we see happening today is just the latest chapter
in a global process spanning millennia

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What we see happening today
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is just the latest chapter in a global process spanning millennia.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:34:36
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.
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,
Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:05
Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows.
In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew
Coral reefs were turning white. - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:04
Coral reefs were turning white.
The white color is caused by corals expelling algae - David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 00:08
The white color is caused by corals expelling algae