Julia P. G. Jones
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
Laura Thomas-Walters
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Kent, UK
Niki A. Rust
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Diogo Veríssimo
Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, …
People and Nature,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
1(4), P. 420 -
425
Published: Jan. 1, 2019
Netflix recently launched its high-profile nature documentary Our Planet. Voiced by Sir David Attenborough in English (with Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz and other Hollywood actors voicing versions simultaneously released in 10 other languages), Netflix are making a clear play for core BBC territory. However, they claim that this is a nature documentary with a difference as it puts the threats facing nature front and center to the narrative. We coded the scripts of Our Planet, and those of three recent Attenborough-voiced BBC documentaries, to explore the extent to which threats (and conservation action and success) are discussed. The only other …
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