Saving Planet Earth

by Tony Juniper

The book of the major BBC1 TV series which will be the TV event of 2007. Combining stunning images, with ways you can help to save it for future generations and introduced by Sir David Attenborough. Saving Planet Earth is the BBC's follow-up to the multi award winning, international bestseller Planet Earth. The new 11 part BBC 1 series, plus a three hour special, will show what is happening to the fantastic animals and plants you saw in Planet Earth, why they are threatened (as nearly all of them are) and, perhaps most importantly, what you can do to prevent their destruction. Each chapter will look at one of the major reasons that is causing the disappearance of the earth's natural beauty (fishing, deforestation, pollution etc) and will look at the major ways that they can be stopped. The BBC has also shortlisted charities who are currently actively helping to prevent this destruction and all the money raised during the series will be donated to these charities.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Nature, Reference, Environment, Green

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 2007

Reviews

[Adz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite generalised, much more information now available, but the concerns still remain. Sad, but even after the original publication of this (and others) we humans seem intent on ignoring the consequences of our actions, with little real effort being undertaken to reduce our impact on the world around us…

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a well-presented colourful book with excellent pictures and statistics, interesting and strong in its message.

The reason I am not giving more stars is because the book seems a little vague - we get figures relating to 'a country in South America' or 'some Asian countries' when I felt the authors and producers should be braver and tell us what is happening where. This is in relation to illegal logging and so forth.

I thought the science and rest of the material was aimed at a mid-teens age group. Certainly this would be of great assistance with a school ecology project. Anyone not up to speed on the current state of the planet would also greatly benefit by reading this book, which might inspire them to discover more by themselves.

If the topic wasn't so fraught, I would say the book is enjoyable.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently this book is based on a BBC TV series of the same name. I miss much on TV, or maybe I don't. The author is Tony Juniper who is a director of Friends of the Earth.
The book is relentless, like a machine gun, it rattles out facts and stats that firstly show how our tiny planet is a floating miracle in space, then to present the many and frightening ways the human population is sawing away at the branch of the tree we all sit upon. We explore the biosphere and earth's biodiversity on land and sea.
Mr Juniper compares our present day dilemma's, with the challenge of Kennedy's choosing to go to the moon, and he seems fairly optimistic of 'us' being equally successful with the challenge to tackle our 'green' issues.