Our planet is an amazing British nature documentary realized in four years and came out in 2019. It’s a collaboration between Netflix, WWF, and silverback films to show the world’s rarest wildlife and habitat, and the threat they face. The series was cast through 50 different countries from all over the world and is narrated by David Attenborough, a famous broadcaster and writer. Netflix expected that 25 million families would watch the series in the next month after the release (5 April 2019). It was later reported that 100 million of them had viewed the documentary as of March 2021.

Through 8 episodes, Our planet illustrates wildlife and the living world while explaining their capital importance. The series explains the consequences of human activities such as overfishing, deforestation, etc. Its shows the crucial importance of forests and oceans. Over the episodes, stands the dashboard of global warming, the human pressure reducing natural space, the overexploitation of resources threatening their viability. Each episode focuses on a particular natural area: the living world is addressed as a whole, with the problems related to threats burdening the environment, until the risk of certain environment and certain species’ disappearance. 

“I wish the world was twice as big – and half of it was still unexplored,” says the narrator.

However, the series insists also on the fact that the safeguard measures taken (like the ones on the whales in 1982) were not for nothing, it helped a lot. Our planet highlights the wealth of various ecosystems and their tremendous biodiversity while stunning the watchers with breathtaking pictures. The main message of the documentary is that the planet on which humans have depended since they existed, has remained beautiful and stable due to the incredible natural cycles of the earth.  

“It’s surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that is a home not just for us, but for all life on earth,” says Mr. Attenborough.