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Nature Docs Avoid Habitat Destruction

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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BBC and Netflix nature documentaries consistently shy away from showing viewers the true extent to which we’ve damaged the planet. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you could go back in time, would you save the world or yourself?

0:05.0

The BAFDA winning series The Lazarus Project returns.

0:12.0

Watch this epic and action-packed sci-fy thriller to see if George and the Lazarus agents can save the world from an infinite time loop

0:19.8

starring Papa Esse Edo and Caroline Quentin alongside a stellar British cast.

0:24.8

Watch all episodes of the new series of the Lazarus Project on Sky.

0:29.1

This is scientific American's 60 Second Science.

0:37.0

I'm Christopher in Tagata.

0:39.0

Nature documentaries are known for their sweeping natural vistas, their amazing footage,

0:45.0

seriously, how did they get that shot, and often the soothing baritone of Sir David

0:49.2

Attenborough.

0:50.2

What those documentaries don't do though is show the realities of

0:56.1

environmental destruction. Historically, particularly BBC

0:59.4

documentaries have shied away from that.

1:02.4

Nicky Rust is an environmental social scientist at Newcastle University in the UK.

1:07.0

Russ studied work by the BBC and the World Wildlife Fund, which had teamed up with Netflix

1:12.0

to make what they said would be a whole new kind of production.

1:15.0

They wanted it to reach, I think, a billion people and then it was going to, you know, revolutionize

1:20.3

nature documentaries.

1:21.6

Except for the fact maybe that Attenborough would be the narrator.

1:25.3

The Netflix series Our Planet aimed to be different because it promised to reveal the threats facing

1:29.7

wildlife in the natural world.

1:31.8

So did it deliver?

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