________
THE OFFICAL COMPANION TO THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES
‘The future of all life on this earth depends on our willingness to take
action now’ – David Attenborough
________
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, breathtakingly beautiful still photography, specially commissioned maps and graphics, and compelling text expanding on the remarkable TV stories and giving the reader a depth of information that is impossible on screen, this companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX series presents a whole new view of the place we call home.
Featuring some of the world's rarest creatures and previously unseen parts of the Earth-from deep oceans to remote forests to ice caps-Our Planet takes nature-lovers deep into the science of our natural world.
Revealing the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways, alongside stories of the ways humans are affecting the world's ecosystems-from the wildebeest migrations in Africa to the penguin colonies of Antarctica-this book captures in one concise narrative a fundamental message-
What we do in the next twenty years will determine the future of not just the natural world but humanity itself.
If we don't act now to protect and preserve our planet, the beauty we're
lucky enough to witness on these pages will have disappeared . . .
Author Biography
In his almost 30-year tenure at the BBC Natural History Unit, Alastair
Fothergill was responsible for the landmark series The Blue Planet, Planet Earth
and Frozen Planet, among a range of productions. Since 2006, he has also worked
for Disney, directing six wildlife movies for its Disneynature label. In 2012,
he set up Silverback Films with Keith Scholey. Silverback produced The Hunt
series for the BBC and Our Planet for Netflix – the first natural history
Netflix Original Documentary Series. This book is Alastair's fifth. A fellow
of the Royal Geographic Society and recipient of its gold medal, he also has
honorary doctorates from the universities of Durham, Hull, York St John and
Bristol. He lives in Bristol with his wife, two sons and two Jack Russells.
Raised in East Africa, Keith Scholey studied zoology at the University of Bristol, gaining both a BSc and PhD. In 1982, he joined the BBC Natural History Unit as a researcher on the David Attenborough series The Living Planet. Later he became a producer and then series producer, running series including Prisoners of the Sun, Wildlife on One and the Wildlife Specials and creating and producing Big Cat Diary. In 1998, he became Head of the BBC Natural History Unit and subsequently Controller of BBC Specialist Factual Commissioning. Finally, he became the Controller of all BBC Factual Productions. In 2008, he left the BBC and is now is the joint director of Silverback Films. In this period, he has directed and produced three Disneynature feature films – Bats, Bears and Dolphin Reef – and has been responsible for the Discovery series North America and Deadly Islands and the Netflix Original Documentary Series Our Planet. He lives in Bristol.
An author and journalist based in London, Fred Pearce is a former news editor of the UK-based New Scientist magazine, and he has been its environment consultant since 1992, reporting from 87 countries. He also writes for many other outlets including the Guardian. He won a lifetime achievement award for his journalism from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011 and was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001. His books include Fallout, The New Wild, When the Rivers Run Dry, Earth- Then and Now and Confessions of an Eco Sinner, which have been translated into 24 languages. When the Rivers Run Dry was listed among the all-time ‘Top 50 Sustainability Books’ by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He lives in London.
