The world’s most trusted environmentalist turns 99 years of age on 8th May 2025 and coincides with the release of his latest documentary, ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’. It’s a sobering moment that when the beloved and revered man staring out to sea reminds us that ‘…as I reach the end of my life’ and is almost as upsetting at the footage brilliantly captured by the documentary’s three film makers that sees Attenborough admit that in his decades of film making, ‘I now understand that the most important place on Earth is not on land but at sea’ adding ‘We are at a crossroads, with humanity draining the life from the ocean.” and what follows ably supports that claim often to depressing effect.
It’s the industrialization and massive overfishing of the world’s oceans focussing on factory ships using hugely destructive practice of bottom trawling. Though it sounds like the hobby of Prince Andrew it is the fishing ships dragging their nets across the oceans beds destroying delicate ecosystems in their path and the footage of marine life swimming for its life before getting scooped up and bought on board only for 75% of the now dead catch to be tossed back into the sea as it’s of no use to the fisherman. A massively wasteful technique that can be seen from space as the recently decimated sea beds now release immense amounts of C02 as the sediment is churned up.. The technique sees turtles and apex predators killed and the balance of marine life overturned
Fishing communities that rely on the stocks for their livelihood are destroyed by the dwindling stocks. The ecological holocaust is equated with the destruction of the rainforests and it’s as sobering an insight as it sounds.
But Ocean with David Attenborough is not quite the doom and gloom that this might sound with the documentary latter part keen to emphasize that there might be hope yet illustrating a number of protected marine zones that have seen life spring back to life after several years. The release of the documentary is to coincide with an upcoming UN conference in Nice in June 2025 where member states look to protect at least 30% of the world oceans from overfishing from the hundreds of factory fishing trawlers.
Attenborough’s documentary’s at their best have been pivotal and inspirational in hope – 2017’s ‘Blue Planet II’ changed attitudes to the world’s oceans used to dump gargantuan quantities of non-biodegradable plastics and this latest often stunningly shot documentary should prove equally effective.
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Here’s the Ocean with David Attenborough trailer…….
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