Disney+ released David Attenborough’s new documentary, the famous naturalist, the film, in addition to captivating, leaves a warning about the ecological danger of “drag fishing”, which could devastate marine fauna
Owner of an impressive and beautiful photograph, the English documentary “Oceans” He premiered in Disney Plus. On June 8 was the World Ocean Day, but in England it premiered a month earlier, on May 8, the day the naturalist David Attenboroughfilm driver, turned 99.
Man is an institution that since 1953 has been working on the dissemination of the wonders of the planet, and in this century he also works on the way we are losing those wonders. “Oceans” First show the beauty of the marine depths, and towards the end, with a few planes that are a frightening novelty, show how the current industrial method called “Drag fishing”(Something like passing the rake) not only captures edible and non -edible animals, but leaves the seabed fully razed, practically a desert without even a plant. To prosper this method, in a few years most of the fish will have diedalso the fishermen’s peoples, and the industrial fishing boats themselves will begin to run out of work. Of course, the film also proposes logical, practical and accessible solutions for those who understand the danger.
“Oceans”also called “Oceans with David Attenborough”is directed by Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield and Keith Scholeyco -produced by Silverback Films (Nowlan), Open Planet Studios (Butfield) and National Geographic, with the participation of the scientist Enric Salathe Prince Alberto de Monaco Foundation, Don Quixote Foundation and other entities, and, interesting fact, its director of photography is the Uruguayan Santiago Cabralthe same as German-Argentina co-production “Wild Argentina”about the best of our national parks.
Another fact: parallel to the premiere of this film, Colin Butfield and Attenborough They published the book “Ocean Earth’s Last Wilderness”in whose first pages they say “prudent and passionate people have put an end to the era of the industrial hunting of whales, and now we open the arms to a new relationship arising from scientific understanding, sanity and compassion. However, despite that progress we have not yet applied that same prevention when protecting the habitat in which they develop. For many of us, the world that opens A dark, disturbing and spectral area. Hence the need for this kind of movies.
Warns Attenborough: “My life coincided with the great era of oceanic discoveries. In the last hundred years, scientists and explorers have revealed extraordinary species, epic migrations and dazzling and complex ecosystems, surpassing everything I could have imagined when I was young. In this documentary, we show those wonderful discoveries, let’s reveal why our oceans are in such a bad health. to life ”.
A lifetime
But who is it David Attenborough? Best known was his older brother Richard Attenboroughdirector of “A bridge too far,” “Gandhi”, “Chaplin” and “Cry, Amado Country”and actor of “Jurassic Park”among other works. David also dedicated himself to cinema, but as a documentary filmmaker. He adds the television work, as a prolific author of series and scientific dissemination programs from 1953 to the present, and even was BBC programming director, among other positions, alternating these tasks with a few trips to the most remote places in the world.
Thus, for example, in 1996 the Georgias del Sur came in 1996, where he filmed “Imax Survival Island”in 2011 to the Georgias and the South Sandwich, making the 3D movie “The Penguin King”and in 2023 to Trelew, where he visited the Egidio Ferrario Paleontological Museum for “Attenborough and the giant dinosaur”, Where he explains how Argentine scientists rescued and assembled the skeleton of a major patagotitan 40 meters long by 8 high, that is, until again notice, the largest animal that the earth has stepped on.
His work has many other attractive titles, such as “The Amber Time Machine”, “The truth about climate change”miniseries of two chapters, “Planet Earth”, “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet”autobiography, and “Extinction: The Facts”. The one now, “Oceans”for which he wrote the main texts and commentator’s office, he is not the last. At 99, maybe he has said he is the last, but he is already preparing another. This is your slogan:
“I have been lucky in my life to see some of the greatest natural shows that the world offers. Without a doubt, we have the responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, habitable for all species.”
Source: Ambito
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