Not all life on Earth is dependent on plants
Mar 10, 2022
4 minutes
SINCE I WAS GIVEN MY FIRST subscription in 1996, I have been an avid reader of BBC Wildlife. This magazine and watching hours of documentaries presented by Sir David Attenborough are two of the reasons why I chose to pursue a career in conservation. I was therefore surprised when in the opening sequence of BBC One’s The Green Planet, Attenborough says that all life on Earth is dependent upon plants – a statement repeated by Simon Barnes in his feature Sir David Attenborough’s Green Planet (February 2022).
While this statement is indeed true for the vast majority of life, it
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