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BOOK REVIEW: A Life on Our Planet – My Witness Statement by David Attenborough – By Wimal Kannangara Source : Brisbane Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2022 To anyone interested in nature and conservation, David Attenborough needs no introduction. Sir David Attenborough is Britain’s, if not the world’s, best known natural history documentary maker. Having joined BBC as a trainee producer in 1952, he rose to become the Controller of BBC2 during which time he introduced colour television to Britain and then to be the Director of Programmes for BBC Television. Then in 1973, he abandoned administration to be documentary making and writing. The rest is history. His witness statement covers the period 1937 when he was 11 years old to 2020 when he was 94 when this book was written. During this period, the world population grew from 2.3 billion to 7.8 billion and the remaining wilderness declined ...