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ATTENBOROUGH SERIES TO WATCH AFTER WILD ISLES


Celebrating the natural world while outlining the effects of climate change, Sir David Attenborough’s documentaries remind us how fragile life is. Words: Charlotte Davis


For more than 70 years, Sir David Attenborough has been the face and voice of countless wildlife documentaries, bringing the vast scale and diversity of the natural world to our screens. His latest series, Wild Isles, zooms in on our own backyard — the programme visited more than 145 locations over the course of three years to film rarely seen natural systems in action all over the UK, warning of the species loss we’re experiencing right on our doorstep. It focuses on wildlife including puffin colonies off the west coast of Wales, orcas visiting the Shetland Islands and dragonflies in Wiltshire. Now the series has finished, here’s a selection of other David Attenborough documentaries to watch.


Planet Earth I & II First broadcast in 2006, Planet Earth showcases the world’s last true wildernesses. On a journey from pole to pole, the series draws attention to the effects of climate change. It returned 10 years later, detailing how the planet has changed, and the extent that animals must go to in order to survive. Both series cover a vast range of habitats around the world, from mountains and deserts to jungles and oceans. Each episode also features a Planet Earth Diaries — a behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties and processes involved with filming elusive and unpredictable plant and animal behaviour, giving a fascinating insight into documentary-making.


Blue Planet I & II Attenborough’s 2001 and 2017 Blue Planet instalments provide a new insight into marine life. Several species, including Dumbo octopus, had never been captured on camera before. Ranging from familiar shallow waters to the depths of unexplored oceans, each episode focuses on a different aspect of life in vast and ever-changing marine environments. The second series revisits the vast span of Earth’s seas and oceans to draw attention to the dangers and risks of human activity on marine life. The programme highlights the effects of plastic and chemical pollution on marine ecosystems and showcases the diversity of marine life that we stand to lose as a result. READ MORE ONLINE


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