{"id":12721,"date":"2022-02-08T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2022-02-09T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:01:05","slug":"the-green-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/08\/the-green-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

The Green Planet TV series<\/h3>\n

The BBC Green Planet television series focuses attention on the central role that plants play in all life on earth. Made by BBC Studios\u2019 world-renowned Natural History Unit and presented and narrated by David Attenborough, the series has 5 programmes, each focusing on a different habitat.<\/p>\n

Tropical Worlds<\/h4>\n

Water Worlds<\/h4>\n

Seasonal Worlds<\/h4>\n

Desert Worlds<\/h4>\n

Human Worlds<\/h4>\n

We’ve created a gallery of images related to the subjects covered in each of the five programmes. You will also find a new Green Planet gallery section<\/a> on our website. Read on to find out more and to browse the gallery images…<\/p>\n

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Tropical Worlds<\/h3>\n

NPL photographer Paul Williams was producer on Tropical Worlds and Desert Worlds. He talks about the Tropical Worlds episode and storytelling:<\/p>\n

“The Tropical Worlds episode is very much about how plants are at the foundation of everything. They\u2019re interconnected. Every animal completely depends on plants. But we also talk about the fragility of these natural environments, the fragility of the rainforests, and how plants are very much part of that. Most natural history programmes, when they delve into the problems of the tropical world, will touch on deforestation, which of course is a significant. What I wanted to do is to go a bit deeper, by focusing on the problem of forest fragmentation. Over the past 100 years, half of the tropical rainforest in the world has disappeared, and half of the remaining tropical rainforest still exists, but only as disconnected fragments. Scientists have discovered that these forest fragments essentially have a half-life, and over several decades the number of species within a forest fragment, decreases by half. So if we want to preserve these fragments, all we have to do is stick the fragments back together.<\/p>\n

To demonstrate how to do this, we took Sir David out to a place in Costa Rica that he visited 30 years ago, which was then a scientific research station on the edge of some grassland. We took him to the exact spot where he stood, which is now a rainforest because the scientists have connected the fragments back together, allowing the forest to regrow.”<\/p>\n

Take a look at our Tropical Worlds gallery<\/a> focusing on the subjects covered in this episode, and here is a taster\u00a0 of the gallery images…<\/p>\n