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Nature Docs Avoid Habitat Destruction

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 24 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

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0:33.6

This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:39.1

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

0:44.8

Seriously, how did they get that shot?

0:46.7

And often, the soothing baritone of Sir David Attenborough.

0:49.6

At the southern tip of the Australian continent.

0:52.7

What those documentaries don't do, though, is show the

0:55.2

realities of environmental destruction. Historically, particularly BBC documentaries have shied

1:01.2

away from that. Nikki Rust is an environmental social scientist at Newcastle University in the UK.

1:07.1

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

1:11.8

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

1:14.6

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

1:18.9

revolutionize nature documentaries.

1:21.4

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

1:25.0

The Netflix series, Our Planet, aimed to be different because it promised to

1:28.3

reveal the threats facing wildlife in the natural world. So did it deliver? Rust and her colleagues

1:33.8

analyzed scripts of Our Planet, along with three recent BBC series, Planet Earth 2,

1:38.8

There's no bigger than a ping pong war, dynasties, even for 20 hyenas, and Blue Planet 2, spider crabs, and logged everything they saw on the screen.

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