I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

For the 1971 film A Blank on the Map he joined the first Western expedition to a remote highland valley in New Guinea to seek out a lost tribe. A second film The Bachelor King 3D followed a year later and further collaborations are planned. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron.

He is also a former senior manager at the BBC having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron. : /ˈætənbərə/) OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist.