SirDavid Attenboroughturns green. Very green.
Legendary British broadcaster, biologist, naturalist and writer travels the world on the latest BBC Earth landmark seriesThe Green Planetat the age of 96. And exploring the earth. Biodiversity and the secret life of plants.
A five-part documentary filmed in 27 countries over four years, Attenborough's 1995 series,The Private Life of Plants{14, has been filming the world of plants. This is the first time I have returned. }
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Green Planetalso includes a stopover in Canada. There, we are investigating the maple trees that have awakened from hibernation and the lodgepole pine that is being attacked by the mountain pine beetles.
Attenborough shared his thoughts on the series with Global News, outlining some of the most amazing plants featured in the show.
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Tell us a bit about shooting this brand new BBC Earth seriesThe Green Planet
David Attenborough:In a sense, the series itself grows as slowly as a plant. We started [shooting] long ago before COVID. So I've been driving around interesting places like California in ways that weren't possible in the last two years. So I appear in all of these different parts of the world much more often than any other [series].
During this series of trips, I came into contact with many plants. Are there any plants that really remain in your head?
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One of the truly amazing and inspiring experiences is the giant Sequoia in California, these giant trees. It was to go. It's no coincidence that it feels like a cathedral. They are huge and some of the tallest are huge. However, what the program did was to use a drone, another invention that seems to have little to do with the plants and technical inventions that changed the natural history photographs in the last 10 to 20 years. Looking at the final sequence of the program, the Camera suddenly rises above the top of the tree. And you see these giants. It's a great sequence.
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I heard that I had a very scary encounter with a cactus during the shoot, but it wasn't.
Yes. Chola is really a physical danger. The rosettes have very dense spines, so they point in all directions. Simply brush it and the thorns will look like glass spicules. That is, the thorns are very sharp and penetrate into you, and you really have a hard time getting them out. So it's a really dangerous plant.
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Can you talk about the water lilies in Pantanal, Brazil?
Water lilies are very aggressive. And since their battlefield is the surface of the lake and the surface of the water, it is a very narrow battle. Giant Water Lily, which makes famous leaves that can hold small babies, has buds full of thorns. Then it appears on the surface and begins to expand, pushing these spikes out of the way of everything else. Eventually, the lake will have huge, hard water lilies hitting each other, leaving no room for anything else. This is one of the most empires to build aggressive plants. Everyone says how great it is, but no one says how murderous it is.
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A walker will probably see more plants than animals. Why do you think people are less involved in plants? They were with animals.
They are apparently sitting there just because they have plants. You can take them, leave them, dig them up, or throw them away. They don't react, they don't resent, they just die. We are not fully involved with plants.
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This interview has been edited and summarized.
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"The Green Planet" will premiere on Wednesday, July 6th at 9pm. ET / PT is only used on the BBC Earth and BBC Earth Prime Video channels in Canada.
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