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    GOING BUSH

    Feb 06, 2022 3 minutes

    Early in his plant-based new series The Green Planet, Sir David Atten-borough is seen alongside a 3000-year-old giant sequoia tree in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

    They make a good pair – one of the biggest, oldest living things in nature alongside the biggest, oldest living thing on natural-history television. He’s now 95.

    There, Attenborough speaks about the threats these seemingly indestructible giants now face from climate change. Predictably, it’s a theme that runs through , as do deforestation and forest fragmentation. But like its leafy predecessor, 1995’s , much of the series is about

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