‘Trying to stay positive’: BBC’s Changing Planet season 2 checks in on efforts to reverse destruction of the natural world
- The second season of the BBC series returns to six vulnerable regions around the world to look at how environmental projects there have been progressing
- Series producer Rosemary Edwards talks about filming in places including the Arctic, Cambodia, Brazil and the Maldives, and her hopes for success
In 2022, BBC television began what it called its “most ambitious environmental series ever”, Changing Planet, in which it set out to report annually from some of the globe’s most vulnerable habitats.
Over seven years, it would follow six global warming and conservation case studies – and with luck, plenty of success stories from the field.
On Sunday, Changing Planet II (called Our Changing Planet II when first broadcast in the UK) kicks off, returning to the Arctic, California and the Maldives to look at efforts to reverse destruction of the natural world (Kenya, Brazil and Cambodia follow next week).
And there’s confidence within the corporation that it can be achieved.
“I’m an optimist,” says series executive producer Rosemary Edwards during a video call from Bristol, England, home of the BBC’s Natural History Unit.
