Exclusive: Sir David Attenborough Discusses The Importance Of Plants In First Look At ‘The Green Planet’ Documentary

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Sir David Attenborough heads to Canada in his five-part series “The Green Planet”. The 96-year-old travels the globe in the latest BBC Earth landmark series to explore Earth’s biodiversity and the secret, fascinating life of plants, with the documentary including stops in Ontario to capture maple trees waking from hibernation and Lodgepole pines being attacked by mountain pine beetles.

A press release reads, “Using pioneering new filmmaking technology and the latest science, ‘The Green Planet’ takes viewers on an immersive journey from the deepest jungles to the harshest deserts, revealing the strange and wonderful world of plants as never seen before.

Living secret, unseen lives, plants are often overlooked. “Yet they are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as animals — locked in life-and-death struggles for food and light, taking part in fierce battles for territory and desperately trying to reproduce and scatter their young.” READ MORE: Exclusive: Sir David Attenborough Discusses ‘Vivid’ Documentary ‘Dinosaur Apocalypse’ Ahead Of Canadian Premiere The series was filmed in 27 countries over four years and marks the first time Attenborough has returned to filming the world of plants since his 1995 series, “The Private Life of Plants”.

A synopsis continues, “Throughout his travels in the series, Sir David meets the largest living things that have ever existed, trees that care for each other, plants that hunt animals and plants that breed so fast they could cover the planet in a matter of months.