what practical things can kew gardens do to address the problem of deforestation? example. kew can provide evidence, evidence that particular areas are special and merit protection. a good example is the ebo forest in cameroon. it's famous for a number of things, including its extraordinary floristic diversity, but it's also the forest where chimps have been filmed using tools to break nuts, for instance. and kew provided the evidence to the cameroonian government that this particular area had an extraordinary number of endemic and endangered plants, and partly based on the evidence submitted by kew, the cameroonian government decided to protect that area from any future logging or degradation. and what's your position on reforestation? because, again, you speak with the authority of kew behind you. and i note, around the world, there are some governments really pushing hard on reforestation, tree—planting. i think the pakistani government's committed to 10 billion trees planted over the next two or three years. tanzania's got a big replanting project, too, but tha

i'm stephen sackur, and today i've come to kew gardens in south—west london. some of the specimens here collected by charles darwin himself. my guest is kew�*s director, richard deverell, who has big ambitions to put this place at the heart of the battle to avert global environmental catastrophe.

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at kew gardens in london, we had rare access behind the scenes to the making of green planet.ough several times during the filming, daisies are things that you decapitate with your lawn mower sort of once a week. but, actually, they are marvellous things. they move every day. they exploit the sunshine, open to the sunshine. the interesting thing is we now have a camera which allows us to actually explore the surface of a plant in great detail, so it is like moving into a different landscape. suddenly, this thing is a huge great thing and you suddenly see it for what it is. this is a battlefield. its tendrils are highly sensitive to touch. got it! you can build up a sequence into a real drama so you think that the plant is hellbent on another plant, which they often aren't, of course. the attenborough message is that unless we think about plants, we will never tackle climate change and he says time is running out for the richest countries to take action. i think it will be really catastrophic if the developed nations of the world, the more powerful nations of the world, simply

at kew gardens in london, we had rare access behind the scenes to the making of green planet.ren't they? that's the nice thing. we caught up with david attenborough several times during the filming, and he seemed most passionate about the most ordinary of plants. daisies are things that you decapitate with your lawn mower sort of once a week. but, actually, they are marvellous things. they move every day. they exploit the sunshine, open to the sunshine. the interesting thing is we now have a camera which allows us to actually explore the surface of a plant in great detail, so it is like moving into a different landscape. suddenly, this thing is a huge great thing and you suddenly see it for what it is. i have been reporting on climate change, climate science, for nearly 20 years and i have seen some spectacular advances in understanding in that time. what most strikes you about the changes you've seen? i think the devastating fires around the world, in australia and california, all over the place. that has brought home the real catastrophe that happens to ordinary people in th

at kew gardens in london, we had rare access behind the scenes to the making of green planet.dinary of plants. daisies are things that you decapitate with your lawn mower sort of once a week. but, actually, they are marvellous things. and they move every day. they exploit the sunshine and open to the sunshine. the interesting thing is we now have a camera, which allows us to actually explore the surface of a plant in great detail, so it's like moving into a different landscape. suddenly, this thing is a huge great thing and you suddenly see it for what it is. i have been reporting on climate change, climate science, for nearly 20 years and i have seen some spectacular advances in understanding in that time. what most strikes you about the changes you have seen? i think the devastating fires around the world, in australia and california, all over the place, that has brought home the real catastrophe that happens to ordinary people in their secure home. every time i see it on television, i think suppose suddenly now, there were flames coming up, that everything, my life, in my h

at kew gardens in london, we had rare access behind the scenes to the making of green planet.iends, aren't they? that's the nice thing. we caught up with david attenborough several times during the filming. and he seemed most passionate about the most ordinary of plants. daisies are things that you decapitate with your lawn mower once a week. but, actually, they are marvellous things. they move every day. they exploit the sunshine, open to the sunshine. the interesting thing is we now have a camera that allows us to actually explore the surface of a plant in great detail, so it is like moving into a different landscape. suddenly, this thing is a huge great thing and you suddenly see it for what it is. this is a battlefield. its tendrils are highly sensitive to touch. and the monstera is within reach. got it. programmes reveal the deadly struggles that go on between plants. the latest time—lapse cameras capture the intense competition for sunlight. the vine tightens its grip and begins to haul itself upwards. you can build up a sequence into a real drama, so really feel that th