soredtherose:

Everyone who saw Sir David Attenborough’s “Africa” series will remember his meeting with the blind baby rhino (if you haven’t seen it, here it is: http://bit.ly/XATJdn).

The rhinos cataract operation is today and you can keep up with his progress at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Facebook page.

speciesofday:

Wildscreen patron, Sir David Attenborough has been on our screens for over 60 years! To mark the occasion he’s highlighting 10 of the weird and wonderful species that he would like to save. Here are a few of them….

Priam’s Birdwing Butterfly 

Sumatran Rhino

Black Lion Tamarin

Sunda Pangolin

Which species’ plight would you most like us to highlight? Please let us know! 

If you’re in the UK, check out Attenborough’s Ark - tonight at 9pm on BBC 2. 

sengis:

now that I’ve watched the documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg, I take back what I said earlier about it being delightfully weird. it’s actually very touching. Giant Egg is presumably about the elephant bird egg David Attenborough brought back from his visit to Madagascar during the filming of an episode of Zoo Quest, though the egg actually ends up with very little screen time. David returns to the country to visit some places he hasn’t seen for 50 years. huge areas of Madagascar were deforested during that time, including most of what he’d visited before. the film’s strongest point is that it allows him to hold the screen most of the time. hearing him narrate is one thing, but seeing his real enthusiasm as he talks about animals is wonderful. there’s this very restrained sadness to him as well when he talks about the changes to Madagascar. the greatest moment in the whole thing, I think, was when a Malagasy conservationist (a former hunter) takes David to see (and feed) an Indri- a lemur that, 50 years ago, was so wary of humans that it took days for the film crew to get the first video footage ever of the animals.

if you’d like to watch Attenborough and the Giant Egg (it’s only an hour long), you can find it here. the BBC’s website for the program is here.

pdc:

(via David Attenborough calls for help as butterflies face worst year ever | Environment | The Guardian)

theuniverseatlarge:

Frozen Planet - On Thin Ice

Simply amazing, David, simply amazing. I can see why they didn’t want it shown to US audiences, but the search for the truth must conquer ease of belief. The sheer breadth and width of your investigation and presentation are inspiring, worthy of the relationship of Carl Sagan and the universe, but to nature and planet earth… the only one we have ever known.

The facts are tough.

The facts are unsettling.

The facts are climate change.