Sir David Attenborough has warned that people have a “few short years” left to make a “choice” on how to recover the natural world. The 96-year-old naturalist and broadcaster was speaking in a new documentary coming to BBC iPlayer about the people trying to combat the decline in nature as well as looking at the wildlife and habitats at risk in the UK.
In Saving Our Wild Isles, Sir David said: “In this film, we’ll meet inspiring people, young and old, who are working to restore the natural world and we will discover that we all need to urgently repair our relationship with the natural world. We now have a few short years during which we can still make a choice, where just enough remains of the natural world for it to recover. This starts and ends with us.”
He also said the UK is “one of the most nature-depleted countries” in the world as one quarter of mammals and one third of birds are at risk of extinction. The film has been funded by charities WWF, the National Trust and the RSPB and has been produced by Silverback Films – the team behind many of the BBC’s landmark nature shows.
