Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough | The Royal Society

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Published 2021-10-11
Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now. 🌍🌱🦒

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Video by Oof Animation: Ana Stefaniak & Ignatz Johnson Higham
Music by Marian Mentrup
Sound design by Marian Mentrup and Timo Säilä

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All Comments (21)
  • The video is indeed one of the masterpiece of animation and, of course, narration.... Thank you Royal Society 😊 As a teenager as well as a citizen of India- a developing country; I want to assure that I will try my best to reduce the rate of climate change & anthropocene. Sir Attenborough is a living treasure for entire planet. Thank you again 🪶
  • @UswaeZainab
    Very beautiful documentary. It explains very well what biodiversity is and how climate change is destroying it, what are the individual steps we can take to prevent this catastrophe. Congratulations on making an informative documentary
  • @iamkumarmihir
    Sir Attenborough favorite forever❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
  • I wonder who is behind the voice over of this wonderful video about 'biodiversity', His voice is so calming
  • Wow! What an awesome video!! Thank you Sir Attenborough and everyone who has made this possible!
  • @jonahpinkypiggd
    i'm watching this in school, i also just want to say thank you for the vid
  • @ahmedafathi8231
    This video is good for biology especially for year 5 beginners to secondary school.
  • This was so beautifully done! I needed help with this matter for my test coming up and this was a perfect explination. Thank you!🥰
  • @lifeandgreens
    Greetings! You have very informative videos and this particular video has creative commons license, can this be uploaded to a certain page for educational purposes? I would be glad to hear from you soon. Thank you