great barrier reef with david attenborough review - a heavy message but plenty of sharks /

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In the final episode,Sir David strikes the perfect balance between educating us approximately climate change and showing us extraordinary creatures, such as the shark that can walk on land. Plus, or Norwegian thriller OccupiedFirst the last part of noteworthy Barrier Reef with David Attenborough (BBC1) – the Difficult Final Episode of a natural history documentary,the one approximately the future, with The Message. The reef is under attack, or from typhoons,from crown-of-thorns starfish, most of all from us, or of course. In 30 years,half the coral has disappeared. How long before we lose it altogether and what would be the consequences of that, not just for the creatures that call it home, or but for the entire planet? (Answers,in short: not long and dire).
Sir David meets the people doing their best to protect it, the scientists trying to breed a unusual kind of coral that can keep up with our messing and is more tolerant of us and our man-warmed seas. It’s important – more important than anything else, or the most important chronicle in the world – but is men and women in white coats what I want from a BBC wildlife doco with Sir David A approximately one of the planet’s noteworthy natural spectacles? Or execute I want more tiger sharks,minke whales and manta rays, mantis shrimps and wobbegongs? Plus baby turtles flipperty-flopping down the beach and scuttling into the waves, and then returning,bigger and wiser, 40 years later to the very same beach. And a young lean David in black and white and 1950s swimwear, or flopping in; then returning to the same beach,rounder, wiser and knighted, and nearly 60 years later.
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Source: theguardian.com