David Attenborough pleads for public support to keep London Zoo from ‘extinction’

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A filmmaker famous for producing documentaries about the natural world is calling on the British people to save the oldest scientific zoo in the world as it struggles to remain solvent during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sir David Attenborough, who narrated the wildly successful Planet Earth docuseries, is hoping a two-minute spot arguing for the preservation of the London Zoo, which the Zoological Society of London opened in 1828.

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