The UK’s three leading conservation charities – the RSPB, the National Trust and WWF will launch a brand new documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films this Sunday (9 April).
Saving Our Wild Isles highlights the people working hard to halt the alarming decline in nature as well as focusing on the wildlife and habitats at risk in the UK – one of the most nature depleted counties in the world.
“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”, says Sir David Attenborough in the programme.
The documentary is exclusive to the UK’s leading streaming platform, BBC iPlayer, and will be available from 8pm this Sunday 9 April. The film is complementary to the BBC commissioned TV series 'Wild Isles’, also produced by Silverback Films, which comes to an end on Sunday. The new film brings to life the scale and pace of change urgently needed to save nature in the UK. It shows not only what is possible and already happening, but also highlights that in order to save our nature, its recovery needs to become mainstream across our society.
The UK is globally important for nature. But today, one quarter of our mammals and one third (38%) of our birds are at risk of extinction, while 97% of our wildflower meadows have been lost since the 1930s - and we have all been part of the problem.
With nature now at breaking point, and the UK amongst the most nature-depleted countries in the world, the film illustrates how people are working with nature, not against it – from restoring seagrass meadows in North Wales, to nature-friendly farming in Suffolk and the Yorkshire Dales to planting saplings to restore woodland in the Cairngorms National Park.
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Posted On: 05/04/2023