Attenborough's Mammals will highlight safari tourism damage
The Guardian|March 25, 2024
David Attenborough has said the BBC's natural history programmes have helped "world opinion change" about conservation, as his latest series Mammals highlights the damage "overcrowded" game reserve tourism has on cheetahs.
Tara Conlan
Attenborough's Mammals will highlight safari tourism damage

In the same way Blue Planet II raised awareness of plastics, the new six-part BBC One programme is likely to prompt questions about safari holidays through footage of shockingly-large numbers of tourist-filled trucks chasing views of hunting cheetahs making a kill - which can often result in the animals leaving the meat and cubs dying.

Mammals, which comes 22 years after Attenborough's acclaimed Life of Mammals, has the broadcaster explain: "With an estimated 69 million visitors to protected sites in Africa each year" parts of it are "becoming overcrowded".

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