US EditionOn his 99th birthday, David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ highlights ‘the most important place on Earth’
- David Attenborough released the feature-length documentary Ocean on his 99th birthday, May 8, 2025, highlighting ocean threats worldwide.
- The film responds to decades of ocean decline caused by global warming, plastic pollution, and overfishing, all worsened by industrial fishing practices.
- Ocean shows extensive coral bleaching graveyards during an extreme marine heatwave, but also features areas like Papahānaumokuākea where fish and seabird populations are recovering.
- Attenborough emphasizes that halting fishing activities in a specific area immediately reduces fish mortality and allows the ecosystem to begin healing almost right away, highlighting the need to expand ocean protection beyond the current coverage of under 3%.
- The film precedes the June 2025 UN Ocean Conference in France, aiming to spur governments to promptly protect 30% of the ocean, which member states agreed on but have slowly implemented.
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On his 99th birthday, David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ documentary highlights ‘the most important place on Earth’
Crashing waves, glistening sea spray, a calm expanse of deep blue. These are the images that open “Ocean with David Attenborough,” the veteran broadcaster’s latest film. After decades of sharing stories of life on our planet, he tells viewers that: “The most important place on Earth is not on land but at sea.”
Attenborough releases film ahead of 99th b-day
British naturalist David Attenborough says there is hope for the future of the planet's oceans despite the scale of their damage in his new film which premiered on Tuesday evening with King Charles in attendance. In his latest work Ocean, Attenborough, one of the world's best-known nature broadcasters and filmmakers whose work spans seven decades, charts the challenges faced by the seas over his lifetime, from destructive industrial fishing prac…
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