David Attenborough

Why Caring for Nature Should Stay in the National Curriculum

Elisabeth Whitebread | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Elisabeth Whitebread

We wrote a letter, which was published this weekend alongside an article in the Sunday Times. It calls on the government to re-instate caring for nature in the primary school curriculum for the benefit of children today and tomorrow. Sir David Attenborough called me up to let me know he would sign our letter.

Why Doctor Who in 3D Still Isn't Enough for Me to Invest in 3D TV

Dr Keith M. Johnston | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Dr Keith M. Johnston

The news that Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special would be broadcast in 3D should, given my interest in 3D media and my long-term fandom of the Doctor and his TARDIS, be the final tipping point that pushes me over the edge into investing in a new 3D TV.

BBC On Back Foot Over Africa Climate Change Claim

PA | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

The BBC re-edited an episode of Sir David Attenborough's Africa series to remove a disputed claim over climate change. In the episode, broadcast on...

David Attenborough Receives Message From Outer Space Through Twitter

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

National treasure Sir David Attenborough made his Twitter debut on Wednesday - and received a message from space. The veteran wildlife broadcaster ...

PREVIEW: Final 'Africa' Episode Turns Its Attention To Rhinos

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

David Attenborough will experience the realities of rhino poaching in the final episode of his hit BBC One series 'Africa' on Wednesday night. In K...

Sir David Attenborough - How to Make the Very Most of a 'Life on Earth'

Rob Atkinson | Posted 06.04.2013 | Home
Rob Atkinson

If there were only a course or qualification entitled "How to Get The Most out Of Life" - and, by golly, shouldn't there be? - then who better, I earnestly enquire, to act as mentor or role-model than Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS?

NTAs 2013: The 14 Best Things About This Year's National Television Awards

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.01.2013 | UK Entertainment

Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry being nervous presenting the first award, a nice change from the overall slickness on display David Walliams' take on...

David Attenborough Says Humans Are A 'Plague On Earth'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.01.2013 | UK

David Attenborough has described humans as a "plague on Earth" that need to slow down breeding to stop the world's population being reduced by more br...

PICTURES: Fighting Giraffes Stun BBC Viewers

Posted 04.03.2013 | UK Entertainment

David Attenborough's New BBC1 Series Africa promised a lot and it delivered with some stunning footage of giraffes fighting. The six part series is...

New 'Open' Policy For Attenborough Show After Polar Bear Debacle

PA | Posted 26.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

Sir David Attenborough's new BBC wildlife series will tell viewers when animals are filmed in specially controlled conditions after an episode of Froz...

Caroline Frost

Sir David Attenborough: 'There's Only One Place Left To Discover'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 10.02.2013 | UK Entertainment

There's only place on the planet left to discover, according to Sir David Attenborough. "The ultra depths of the ocean is the last frontier," expl...

Could TV Naturalists Become Extinct? Attenborough Thinks So..

PA | Posted 12.09.2012 | UK Entertainment

Sir David Attenborough believes TV naturalists like him could become extinct and replaced by amateurs from the YouTube generation. The broadcaster ...

On A Wing And A Prayer: Wet Weather Could Hit UK Butterfly Populations

PA | Posted 12.07.2012 | UK

Butterfly populations could suffer population crashes as a result of the record-breaking wet weather this spring and summer, Sir David Attenborough wa...

What Channel 4 Taught Me This Week: Hippos are Pretty Badass

Hanna Flint | Posted 11.06.2012 | UK Entertainment
Hanna Flint

On Monday night I watched Inside Nature's Giants, Channel Four's wildlife documentary opponent to the BBC's [insert David Attenborough's latest wildlife programme here].

Tweet me Harder, Baby

Josh Barrie | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK Tech
Josh Barrie

As far as Twitter goes, I'm just a recent hatchling. I'm okay with that, because I've only been genuinely 'active' on my account for about four or fiv...

Wildlife Welfare: What's in it for Me?

Graeme Keeton | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Tech
Graeme Keeton

Why should you care about wildlife that exists thousands of miles away? All of these different species and seemingly countless variations on a theme.

Polar Bears - One Born Every Minute

Nick Harrison | Posted 13.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Nick Harrison

Nature documentaries never aim to project complete realism onto our screens. Killer whales don't actually chew on penguins in slow-motion. The Antarctic landscape doesn't glisten and sweep like a David Lean epic, its inhabitants are not permanently viewed through a cinematic filter that would make a tramp's mongrel look like the most majestic of all God's beasts.

Social Media Holding a 'Black Mirror' Up to Nature

Philip Larkin | Posted 11.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Philip Larkin

In the wake of social media playing a large part in worldwide coverage of disasters, newspaper hacking scandals and more - we are evolving and we're beginning to get used to joining in the conversation on a massive scale.

Attenborough Weighs In On 'Frozen' Fraud Fracas

WENN | Posted 11.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

Presenter Sir David Attenborough has defended the inclusion of archive footage in his hit TV wildlife documentary Frozen Planet. Outraged viewers c...

Sir David: 'We Did It For The Polar Bears'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 13.12.2011 | UK Entertainment

Sir David Attenborough has weighed into the Frozen Planet row to defend the use of footage of polar bear cubs which was not filmed in the Arctic, but ...

Frozen Planet Fraudulent? Scenes Of Polar Bear Cubs Birth Filmed In German Zoo

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

Frozen Planet has left fans out in the cold with revelations that footage of polar cubs being born was actually filmed in a zoo. The BBC has come u...

Great British Gentleman: Who Beat Attenborough?

Posted 09.12.2011 | UK

Sir Winston Churchill has been named the greatest British gentleman, with Sir David Attenborough and Stephen Fry ranking close behind, according to a ...

The Best 'Frozen Planet' Twitter Jokes

The Huffington Post UK | Andrea Mann | Posted 12.02.2012 | UK Comedy

Today, we learned that every single polar bear we've been watching on Frozen Planet has, in fact, been David and Richard Attenborough walking around i...

As If We Needed Reminding...

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 08.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

BBC One always goes a bit crackers at Christmas, but this year it has surpassed itself. Never mind the five-star lineup, Nick Knowles et al - many...

Is Accuracy Being Frozen Out of the BBC's Climate Change Coverage?

Bob Ward | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK
Bob Ward

The final episode of Frozen Planet featured narrator Sir David Attenborough as he explained the ways in which shrinking ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are radically changing life at the poles for all species, including humans. But the seventh instalment of the BBC's extraordinarily successful series has attracted undeserved controversy for its focus on the impacts of climate change.