David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is a British naturalist and television personality.
Attenborough was born in London and grew up in Leicester. He is one of the most famous naturalists in the world. He presents many programs about nature, talking about the lives of animals and has stopped millions of people polluting our oceans. He has won many prestigious award and honorable mentions. In 1980 he won the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
In 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme honored him as a Champion of the Earth "for his dedication to research, documentation, and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration".
Filmography
Life on Earth (1979)
The Living Planet (1984)
The Trials of Life (1990)
Life in the Freezer (1993)
The Private Life of Plants (1995)
The Life of Birds (1998)
The Life of Mammals (2002)
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
Life in Cold Blood (2008)
David Attenborough's Life Stories (2009)
David Attenborough's New Life Stories (2011)
Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise (2012) - with Errol Fuller
Planet Earth II (2016)
Species named in Attenborough's honour
At least fifteen species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour.
Plants
Plants named after him include
an alpine hawkweed (Hieracium attenboroughianum) discovered in the Brecon Beacons,
a species of Ecuadorian flowering tree (Blakea attenboroughi),
one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants (Nepenthes attenboroughii),
a genus of flowering plants (Sirdavidia).
Arthropods
Arthropods named after Attenborough include
a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr (Euptychia attenboroughi),
a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail, (Acisoma attenboroughi),
the millimetre-long goblin spider Prethopalpus attenboroughi,
an Indonesian flightless weevil (Trigonopterus attenboroughi), and
a Madagascan ghost shrimp (Ctenocheloides attenboroughi).
Living vertebrates
Vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including the
Namibian lizard Platysaurus attenboroughi.
the bird Polioptila attenboroughi.
the Peruvian frog Pristimantis attenboroughi and
one of only four species of long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi).
Fossils
In 1993 it was found that the Mesozoic reptile Plesiosaurus conybeari was not a species of Plesiosaurus. The palaeontologist Robert Bakker renamed the species Attenborosaurus conybeari.
A fossilised armoured fish discovered in Western Australia in 2008 was given the name Materpiscis attenboroughi, after Attenborough had filmed at the site and highlighted its scientific importance in Life on Earth. The Materpiscis fossil is believed to be the earliest organism capable of internal fertilisation.
A miniature marsupial lion, Microleo attenboroughi, was named in his honour in 2016.
The fossil grasshopper Electrotettix attenboroughi was named after Attenborough.
In March 2017, A 430 million year old tiny crustacean was named after him.