I am happy to receive updates about conservation, fundraising, campaigning and events from my local WWF office You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time. One of the big threats is the loss of insects. The website's critical consensus reads, "A cornucopia of visual wonder and environmental advocacy, Our Planet's breathtaking cinematography explores more of this beautiful, blue marble while presenting an urgent call to action to its inhabitants"[16] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 88 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Speaker 8: (06:03) Witness the planet's breathtaking diversity -- from seabirds carpet-bombing the ocean to wildebeests eluding the wild dogs of the Serengeti. And that is scary. We've had swine flu, SARS, Ebola, and we've actually looked back over every emerging disease and said, where did it originate on the planet? Our increasing population and continuing interference with the natural cycles of the earth bring the world ever closer to the petri dish experiment. As with the manufactured climate crisis, they are using the spectre of mass extinction to scare the public into compliance" We've wasted 20 to 30 years when the governments of the world, working with the private sector, could have done a much better job conserving biodiversity. [Before asking this question show the class the 25-second video on the movies website called: Five Steps to Help Save Our Planet.] We have completely destroyed the natural balance of fish in the world's oceans. The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years. Of the total mass of mammals on Earth, livestock has been found to account for 60%, humans for 36%, and wild animals just 4%. There are four Asian pangolin species and four African. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. The soundtrack was released with a compilation of the incidental music specially commissioned for Our Planet. (The three Anchor Standards read: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media, including visually and quantitatively as well as in words.) CCSS pp. Host Ari Shapiro speaks to the natural historian Sir David Attenborough, who began making documentaries and TV programs in the 1950s. Only if we do that will we have any hope of averting disaster. Three award nominations: BAFTA Awards 2021: nominated for Best Documentary; 2021 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards: nominated for Documentary Score of the year; and Cinema Audio Society, USA 2021: nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures Documentary. Cultured meat, also called clean meat, is Meat for consumption produced as a cell culture of animal cells rather than from the slaughter of animals. She is very quiet. It could be a status symbol or it could be for medicinal purposes. Across the globe, the pressures faced by the natural world are becoming ever harder to solve because of our growing demand for nature's resources. The problem is, as you remove more and more of the adult fish, particularly the larger sized fish, you end up with fewer and fewer of the eggs and the fry, and there's simply not enough for the population to recover. period of fewer than 2.8 million years. We face a frightening future. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In particular, she says the program should have called out those responsible for this ecocide. The UK doesn't import much beef, but we do import another product from Brazil which is driving the destruction of habitat. the woodland bordering . David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 8 likes Like "To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. The reality is our world is based on economic growth, grabbing more and more. What is your plan for how human beings are going to save the planetary ecosystem and how are you going to contribute to that effort? All those examples can be done quickly, they are labour intensive and are strong economic multipliers. Preparation task . Think about the air we breathe, concentration of CO2 in the air, clean water. Obviously, if you clear a rainforest or natural savanna and you replace it with a monoculture agriculture, of course it's unsurprising you're going to lose most of the species that evolved to survive there. Because they form the food chain for hundreds of thousands of other species. aerosol spray or used in refrigerants were actually eating the ozone layer. What we now know about the natural world is that everything is joined up. Narrated by David Attenborough, the five-episode second season will premiere globally in a five-day week-long event beginning May 22 on Apple [] The global temperature has not wavered over this period by more than plus or minus one degree Celsius, until now. Using the Movie in the Classroom The evidence is that unless immediate action is taken, this crisis has grave impacts for us all. With David Attenborough, Max Hughes. It's basically scrub grasslands, scrub forests. "[21] Stuart McGurk of British GQ said "Its hard not to see this as a direct rebuke of the BBCs nature documentaries: take one well-worn spectacular of the natural world, shoot it even more spectacularly than the BBC ever did and structure your whole opening episode around the idea that, without taking things like global warming seriously without putting it front and centre about any show youre making about the natural world, because how could you not then pretty soon theyll be nothing left to film so beautifully. [4], On 15 April 2015, it was announced that the team behind the BBC nature series Planet Earth would produce an eight-part nature docu-series for Netflix that would be released in 2019. A tale of the smartest species doomed by that all too human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short term goals. Calculate how much it costs to transcribe, caption, or subtitle your content. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Translated on-screen subtitles for videos. Show more Show more Shop the Netflix store. Bridges to Reading Killing? Attenborough, David, 1926-2 Entertain (Firm) BBC Video (Firm) British Broadcasting Corporation; . The crops necessary to feed those animals consume more than 50% of the potable water in the U.S. One hamburger with 1/3rd of a pound of beef requires 660 gallons of water to produce. He was invited to speak by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who chaired this month's session. We have systems to bring food to our cities and to remove sewage. This is that moment. So, whats stopping you from doing something to help the environment and to preserve humanity and the non-human animals at risk from climate change? This opportunity is out of sight. Speech-to-Text live streaming for live captions, powered by the worlds leading speech recognition API. Parenting Points All of the calculations show we're on track for a three to four degree world. This is important for males to find mates or when young will go find new territories. Starting from 20 June 2020, the series was aired on Indonesian television network TVRI as a part of Belajar dari Rumah (Study from Home) programming block, made possible by a partnership between the Ministry of Education and Culture and Netflix. Documentary series focusing on the breadth of the diversity of habitats around the world, from the remote Arctic wilderness and mysterious deep oceans to the vast landscapes of Africa and diverse jungles of South America. Students will disagree. Ururabyo means flower. We only have two left on the planet. Its a type of competition that does not end well in a closed system such as the finite, sealed dish. All available episodes' scripts of Tv Show Planet Earth II . And everybody hoped that this would cut down the trade straight away, but unfortunately, that's not happened. The complete series [HD DVD] / a BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production, in association with the CBC ; . Shop for sustainable fish and meat; 3. Then conduct a class discussion on the topic. We now have enough data to be able to identify the main drivers of biodiversity loss. The series is narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who also created BBC documentary series Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and The Blue Planet, in collaboration with the conservation charity World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Theres every reason to believe that the answer can be yes. Is it the very large number of people, or the small number of people with very few children who are actually driving negative impacts? These deaths also occur exponentially due to the worsening environment, and soon there is a moment when the death rate and the birth rate equal each other at that point the population has peaked, and may plateau for a period. Some sweep up the ground with a net that might be as big as this house. CCSS pp. 35 & 60. Our Planet is voiced by Sir David Attenboroughworld-renowned naturalist. For a pdf file containing the chart, click here. Plus, a weekly dose of must-read awards coverage. But the reality is there's really not a lot of wild left out there. One of the highest levels ever recorded in any killer whale on the planet. This film poses questions that citizens must answer about the most serious and pressing existential threat to humankind. We work closely with law enforcement officials. 223 & 224. Everything behind bullet points comes from the experts who appeared in the programme. The critical thing is that there is now enough land that's already been cleared to sustain the levels of production that we need. And the surrounding areas become lethal territory. A portion of the price that a tourist pays is actually reserved for those communities adjacent. People claim these are cultures and traditions, but a lot is really just a marketing scheme by traders looking for the next animal to exploit. What can you say to a person from a poor developing country who wants to live the rich and environmentally destructive life-style now enjoyed by many affluent people in the U.S.? Before the end of the time allotted for this exercise, lead the class to discuss what human beings can do to avoid the fate of the bacteria in their sealed petri dish. This website uses cookies and similar identifiers to give you the best online experience. From ocean giants to the tiniest insects. Without them we would starve or be awash in our own effluents. However, the supply is becoming increasingly unpredictable for all manner of species. So when you look at previous groups in the fossil records, then it's over millions of years they go extinct. In the 1970s, this population of mountain gorillas was estimated to be around 250 individuals in this area. General Eisenhower, Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, upon discovering the horrific Nazi death camps said, For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Even today, Animal Rights activists feed water to pigs crammed together in the large trucks used to transport them to slaughter both to relieve the pigs of a little of their suffering and to bear witness to that suffering. [6], In November 2018, David Attenborough was announced as the narrator, with the release date of 5 April 2019 also announced. Since the first cases of Covid-19 were identified in China and linked to a wet market in Wuhan, scientists around the world have been piecing together where and how the virus emerged. It was recognised to be of critical importance to the future of Earth. At this moment, we do have the Paris Agreement that says all governments should try and limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius. And what are the things going on there that could have caused it? What can governments, industries and we as individuals do to slow this decline of the natural world? What we're now seeing is major floods. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - PG - 2020 Documentary 1h 23m - NETFLIX In his 93 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of the planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. But we drive it, actually. Lots of people don't like government regulation, but there are some tremendous success stories of international legal cooperation. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. In 1992 at the Earth Summit, a convention was signed to protect biodiversity. Apple TV+ has renewed the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth). Choose deforestation-free palm oil products; and But what we didn't think was it was going to happen so quickly and so devastatingly. Writing: Anchor Standards #s 1 5 and 7- 10 for Writing and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). David Attenborough, Our Planet. What is the quickest and best thing that you can do to help protect the oceans? the over-fishing of the seas; David. Students can write a poem describing their reaction to the film or inspired by the film. This video guide includes 5 instructional resources for use with the Netflix video "Our Planet: Jungles".28 Question Worksheet w/ Answer Key43 Word Word Jumble w/ Answer Key43 Word Word Search w/ Answer Key43 Word Word ListWord-for-Word Transcript of the Entire EpisodeCheck out my "Our Planet: One Earth" set of resources for free.The questions are answered about every 2-3 minutes. Have the class read the following section from Mr. Attenboroughs bookA Life on Our Planet and then write a one-page essay about how the situation of human beings on earth is similar to and different from the bacteria in the petri dish. Ultimately, the seal dish becomes a very different place a place with no food, its environment ruined, hot, acid and toxic. Even today, there are people that will do anything in their power to make sure that the politicians do not act. Now, we determine how nature survives', Launch HBO's 'Our Planet' - 2019 Your Royal Highnesses, ladies and gentleman. It was an experience that has stayed with me, but it was tinged with sadness as I thought I might be seeing some of the last of their kind. This change has not happened overnight, but if it can be achieved here, where human population pressure is so high, where the politics can be very complicated, especially among different states, I believe it can be achieved elsewhere as well. Sir David Attenborough is a broadcast legend. For. IN GRAVE DANGER. Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been. "Oh, she's achieved things that many of us who . At the moment, nature is coming as a free good. Poaching is a brutally cruel business. 40 years ago, I had one of the most memorable experiences of my life. Today, the most trafficked animal in the world is one few people have ever seen and many have never even heard of. They were on the brink of extinction. Students will have many good ideas. Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. We can plant trees, we can start retrofitting buildings so they're much more efficient, make our cities much cleaner. If working apart, we are force powerful enough to destabilize our planet, surely, working together, we are powerful enough to save it. We will all share in the benefits. TWM recommends The Petri Dish Assignment, above. 48. Big picture. long term, theyre not in our field of vision. If there are barriers to movement, this can cause very serious consequences. But reports have suggested that up to 30% of the land's surface globally has been degraded and has soils of low biodiversity. We invented them in the '20s and then we began to ban them from the '80s onwards because we realised they had quite a serious and toxic effect on life. What's different is that it's happening simultaneously in the Amazon, in Africa, in the Arctic. We should be restoring not destroying wild habitats. It is the first nature documentary Netflix has ever made. So you chop all those trees down, there's nothing doing that, you end up with a landslide. JOIN NOW From the makers of "Planet Earth," and narrated by Emmy and BAFTA winner Sir David Attenborough. Poppy grew up and actually was a very long-lived mountain gorilla and had many offspring. 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See Helpful Background. But it's the rate of extinction. A supernatural thriller series that shows there isn't necessarily a rational explanation behind every occurrence. And so we think Covid-19 maybe even started there. For much of humanitys ancient history, that number bounced wildly between 180 and 300, and so too did global temperatures. OUR PLANET. A behind-the-scenes documentary was released onto Netflix on 2 August 2019. Fatu, no, come on. But some of it is actually imported into the UK. David Attenborough sits on a rock by a shore, facing the camera. 35 & 60. Buy wood and paper from well-managed forests. And we've found we're behind every single pandemic and it's human impact on the environment that drives emerging diseases. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. See also Anchor Standard # 2 for ELA Speaking and Listening, CCSS pg. We will reveal what must be preserved if we are to ensure a future where humans and nature can thrive. The massive hit to the economy is no surprise. The idea is to get the class thinking. It's never been more critical for us to understand what is driving this crisis. Learn more about our use of cookies and information. In my lifetime, Ive witnessed a terrible decline. Buy wood and paper from well-managed forests. Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standards #s 1 3 (for ELA classes). . The point of this question is that given the current situation everyone will need to have an idea of what they want for the planet in the future and how society can attain the goal of a balanced sustainable ecosystem. And then, going forwards, we need to dramatically change the damage that we do from producing and consuming. And when we looked at her ovaries, we found they were non-functional. Nature is a key ally. Cameras follow desert elephants seeking sustenance, bison roaming North American grasslands and caterpillars living the good life underground. 3) Similarities between the world and the sealed petri dish are that: we are all alive (bacteria and human beings); in the process of living we create waste products that are toxic to us and harmful to the environment; we share the inability to control our populations; neither bacteria nor homo sapiens can our greed in grabbing more than our share of the available resources. But then as animals above them eat more and more of the small animals, they'll concentrate up the food chain. Sir David Attenborough spoke about climate action at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021. Benefits of the Movie And also, we need to reduce the amount of chemicals, we've got to make sure we're not degrading our soils. Plants underpin almost every single thing that we require. So, things have changed. Our population growth is actually slowing down and by the end of the century, it will plateau. We must use this opportunity to create a more equal world and our motivation should not be fear, but hope. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. We need to restore-or "rewild"- biodiversity on the planet. It is sometimes called bearing witness. An example of (1) occurs in the New Testament when Jesus tells his disciples to bear witness about him and their faith. The last remaining pod of in-shore killer whales up in north-west Scotland, where they only have eight individuals left. 3. And the expansion of agriculture was the only way for most people to survive. There's a wave of revolution going around, especially with young people. From a person that has seen just how quickly our natural world has disappeared in his own lifetime, at the present rate how little time could be left, what solutions, course to take.