Biodiversity david attenborough biography early life

David Attenborough, (Sir David Frederick Attenborough) was born in London, 8 May 1926 into the family a Cambridge school administrator and his wife.

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He read zoology and geology at Clare College, Cambridge. After a brief spell in the Royal Navy, he joined a publishing house as an editorial assistant (1949-52) before moving to BBC television as a trainee producer in the Television Talks Department at Alexandra Palace.

Attenborough conceived the idea of a TV series based on animals in their natural habitats and, in 1954, the first Zoo Quest programmes were filmed in Sierra Leone. In the second series, Attenborough took over as presenter and also wrote the first of several books to accompany the programmes, Zoo Quest to Guiana (1956).

His ten years of involvement with the Zoo Quest series took him to many of the wilder parts of the world. He was also involved in a wide range of political, archaeological religious, short story and gardening programm