It’s a heartbreaking irony – one not lost on Sir David Attenborough – that in his long lifetime scientists’ knowledge of the natural world has increased dramatically while nature has suffered devastating losses over the same period. Meanwhile, our appetite for David’s powerful storytelling is as insatiable as ever and his new film and book make a formidable case for change.
These creative outputs are reflections of a life told through the lens of nearly a century of marine discovery, destruction and glimpses of recovery. The book of Ocean contains different stories and subject matter to the film but shares the message of hope.
