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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May )[2][3] is a Britishnaturalist and television personality.[4]

Life

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Attenborough was born in London and grew up in Leicester.[4] He is one of the most famous naturalists in the world.[5] He presents many programs about nature, talking about the lives of animals and has stopped millions of people polluting our oceans.[6] He has won many prestigious award and honorable mentions.

In he won the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award.[7][8] He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.[9]

In , the United Nations Environment Programme honored him as a Champion of the Earth "for his dedication to research, documentation, and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration".[10]

Filmography

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  • Life on Earth ()
  • The Living Planet ()
  • The Trials of Life ()
  • Life in the Freezer ()
  • The Private Life of Plants ()
  • The Life of Birds ()
  • The Life of Mammals ()
  • Life in the Undergrowth ()
  • Life in Cold Blood ()
  • David Attenborough's Life Stories ()
  • David Attenborough's New Life Stories ()
  • Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise () - with Errol Fuller
  • Planet Earth II ()

Species named in Attenborough's honour

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At least fifteen species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour.[11]

Plants

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Plants named after him include

Arthropods

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Arthropods named after Attenborough include

Living vertebrates

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Vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including the

Fossils

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Views on population

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In Attenborough was quoted as saying that the planet has always and will always look after itself but:

what worries him most about the future of the natural world is that people are out of touch with it over half the world is urbanised; some people don't see any real thing except a rat or a pigeon ecosystems are incredibly complex and you fiddle with them at your peril".[27]

When David Attenborough began his career, in , Earth's human population was measured at just billion people in he said:

“We cannot continue to deny the problem.

People have pushed aside the question of population sustainability and not considered it because it is too awkward, embarrassing and difficult. But we have to talk about it″.[28]

In January , while being interviewed by Radio Times, he said:

“We are a plague on the Earth.

It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now”.[29][30]

In a Daily Telegraph interview in September he said:

"What are all these famines in Ethiopia?

What are they about?" / "They're about too many people for too little land.

See full list on simple.wikipedia.org: David Attenborough. Retrieved 22 July Preceded by Position established. Sports around the World: History, Culture, and Practice.

That's what it's about. And we are blinding ourselves. We say, get the United Nations to send them bags of flour. That's barmy".[31][32]

References

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  1. ↑"Ethiopia's Prof. Sebsebe Demissew awarded prestigious Kew International Medal".

    . Archived from the original on 17 May Retrieved 16 May

  2. ↑Anon (). Attenborough, Sir David (Frederick). Who's Who (online Oxford University Press&#;ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi/ww/(subscription required)
  3. ↑"Sir David Attenborough (English broadcaster and author)".

    Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 26 August

  4. ↑ "David Attenborough Biography". Bio/A&E Television Network, LLC. Retrieved 19 February
  5. ↑"Biography: Sir David Attenborough".

  6. See full list on simple.wikipedia.org
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    9. BBC. Retrieved 19 February

  9. ↑"Sir David Attenborough: Bafta TV awards ". The Guardian. 3 December
  10. ↑"Television—Fellowship in ". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 19 February
  11. ↑"Sir David Attenborough: BAFTA Awards".

    . BAFTA.

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    17. Retrieved 3 December

  17. ↑"Natural History with Sir David Attenborough". BAFTA. 3 April Retrieved 12 May
  18. ↑"Sir David Attenborough named Champion of the Earth by UN". BBC News. 20 April Retrieved 21 April
  19. ↑Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. ().

    See full list on simple.wikipedia.org The writer, broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough was born on 8 May BBC Media Centre. Ross Harrison. 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.

    "Natural history: Restore our sense of species". Nature. (): – doi/a. ISSN&#; PMID&#; S2CID&#;

  20. ↑BSBI (24 December ). "Hawkweed named for Sir David Attenborough"., T.C.G.

    Sir david attenborough wikipedia Alongside the Life series, Attenborough continued to work on other television documentaries, mainly in the natural history genre. In , the two eldest Attenborough brothers returned to their home city to receive the title of Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University of Leicester, "in recognition of a record of continuing distinguished service to the University. Archived from the original on 31 August They proved a difficult subject for his producers, who had to deliver hours of television featuring what are essentially immobile objects.

    Rich (December ). "Hieracium attenboroughianum (Asteraceae), a new species of hawkweed". New Journal of Botany. 4 (3). Maney: – doi/Y S2CID&#;

  21. ↑Couvreur, Thomas L.P.; Niangadouma, Raoul; Sonké, Bonaventure; Sauquet, Hervé (4 February ). "Sirdavidia, an extraordinary new genus of Annonaceae from Gabon".

    PhytoKeys (46): 1– doi/phytokeys ISSN&#; PMC&#; PMID&#;

  22. ↑"Rare Amazonian butterfly named after Sir David Attenborough". BBC Earth.

    See full list on simple.wikipedia.org The extinct " elephant bird " of Madagascar. And when he goes on site to share the screen with one of his subjects, it's magical. Attenborough's contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international recognition. In October , the corporation announced a trio of new one-off Attenborough documentaries as part of a raft of new natural history programmes.

    3 December Retrieved 6 May

  23. ↑"Attenborough at 90". Sir David Attenborough. 8 May BBC Television. Retrieved 8 May
  24. ↑Bawden, Tom (22 December ). "Following a plant and a spider, Sir David Attenborough now has a beetle named after him". The Independent.

    Retrieved 30 December

  25. ↑Osborne, Hannah (22 December ). "'David Attenborough' one of 98 new beetle species discovered in Indonesia". International Business Times. Retrieved 30 December
  26. ↑Collins, Adrian (23 December ). "David Attenborough is getting a beetle named after him".

    . Retrieved 30 December

  27. ↑ Laskow, Sarah All the creatures named after David Attenborough. Slate. Archived from the original on 12 January The Slate Group logo
  28. ↑Lehr, Edgar; von May, Rudolf (). "A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Craugastoridae, Pristimantis) from high elevations of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru".

    ZooKeys (): 17– doi/zookeys PMC&#; PMID&#;

  29. ↑"Species named after Sir David Attenborough – in pictures". The Guardian. 31 July Retrieved 1 August
  30. ↑"Plesiosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide". Archived from the original on 1 October Retrieved 4 November
  31. ↑"Oldest Live-Birth Fossil Found; Fish Had Umbilical Cord".

    National Geographic News. 28 May

  32. ↑Gough, Myles (25 August ).

    See full list on simple.wikipedia.org Archived from the original on 24 June Life In Colour. When Attenborough's name was being suggested as a candidate for the position of Director-General of the BBC in , he phoned his brother Richard to confess that he had no appetite for the job. How the residents of a village in Satoyama live in harmony with nature.

    "Kitten-sized extinct 'lion' named after David Attenborough". BBC News. Retrieved 29 August

  33. ↑Gillespie, Anna K.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (). "A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia"(PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 19 (A). Palaeontological Association: 1– doi/ Retrieved 29 August
  34. ↑"Fossil named after Sir David Attenborough".

    BBC News. 22 March

  35. ↑Wheatley, Jane (28 July ). "The Life of Attenborough – a rare glimpse into the private world of Sir David". Good Weekend in the Sydney Morning Herald: 12–
  36. ↑"Sir David Attenborough: 'This awful summer? We've only ourselves to blame'". . The Independent, UK broadsheet newspaper.
  37. ↑"David Attenborough: "Humans are a plague on the Earth"".

    . Radio Times, a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. Archived from the original on 8 August Retrieved 22 March

  38. ↑Gray, Louise (22 January ). "David Attenborough – Humans are plague on Earth". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 8 October Retrieved 6 October
  39. ↑"David Attenborough says sending food to famine-ridden countries is 'barmy'".

    . The Independent, newsgroup.

  40. ↑"David Attenborough: trying to tackle famine with bags of flour is 'barmy'". . The Guardian, newsgroup. 18 September

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