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PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Sir David Attenborough's new series Wild Isles aims to give the wildlife of Britain 'the Africa treatment' and contains an astonishing sequence using infra-red technology

The naturalist's next series will focus on British natural history

Sir David Attenborough is fronting a new five-part BBC One series called Wild Isles which begins on Sunday and it's believed that it could be his last on location

At 96, the nature presenter is set to return to TV screens for a landmark series on British and Irish natural history

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record.

They have shot previously extinct butterflies, soaring white-tailed eagles and the lesser spotted David Attenborough. Now the team behind some of the BBC’s best nature docs are training their lenses closer to home

Exclusive: There are just two weeks to save the £50m 18th-century Joshua Reynolds painting – one of the earliest portraits of a person of colour – or it could be lost to a foreign buyer

Nature documentary maker Sir David Attenborough has had a remarkable 69 year career, but still regrets spending so much time covering natural history overseas

The legendary broadcaster is still making nature programmes at the age of 96

The late Queen was walking through the gardens of Buckingham Palace with environmentalist Sir David Attenborough when she cracked the joke about the former U.S President and his helicopter

We are a species that is superb at killing, says veteran oceanographer, who calls for us to stop treating fish like crops and give them the respect they deserve