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Legendary narrator and environmental activist David Attenborough will no longer be trotting the globe to bring us insights into the complicated ecosystems of planet Earth. After 29 years of working on BBC nature documentaries like Planet Earth and the much under-rated Life in the Undergrowth, David has announced that he's going to take a stab at a more stationary lifestyle.

Apparently, concerns about his age -- he is 81, after all -- and his carbon footprint have convinced Attenborough to make his most recent documentary, Life in Cold Blood, the last of its kind -- but David's documentaries are not going extinct.

Far from retiring, Mr. Attenborough is taking the opportunity to make a different type of documentary film -- one that takes a less ambitious travel schedule. He's about to begin a film about evolution, set to release on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.

Since he's covered nearly everything one could hope to see in a lifetime, David has taken more to the idea of preserving what's left to preserve -- although he's not all that optimistic. According to him, much of what he's been able to film over the years would be much more difficult, if not impossible, to find and film today. Global warming and the ever-expanding population are going to be a major challenge for the next group of nature filmmakers. As he points out:

"the plain, simple, overwhelming fact of the matter is that since I started making programs, there are three times as many people on the Earth... It is inevitable that you are going to make huge inroads into what was wild nature and that process is going on. It's going to get worse before it gets better."