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		</div><p>David Attenborough has said he is currently more encouraged than he had previously been about the widespread concern for the natural world, and that there are “signs of hope”.</p>
<p>The naturalist and broadcaster also praised the relatively modern phenomenon of many different nations coming together for global causes, and that overall, he feels there has been a general “worldwide shift” in attitudes towards the natural world.</p>
<p>In a special event at the Edinburgh International Television Festival to mark 60 years of the Natural History Unit at BBC Studios, Attenborough said: <i>“I spend a lot of time wringing my hands and saying how dreadful it is, and how this forest has been obliterated, and that sea has been polluted and whatever.”</i></p>
<p>He said that, despite this, “there are signs of hope”, and that “there has been a worldwide shift, I think, amongst people in general who are concerned with the natural world”.</p>
<p><i>“I am encouraged more than I have been, somehow.”</i></p>
<p>Asked by Julian Hector, the head of the unit, what has heartened him over the past five years in terms of our relationship with the natural world, Attenborough said: <i>“People used to get very upset that we couldn’t get international agreement on so many conservation issues.</p>
<p>“And I used to say, look – never in the whole of history have nations with different attitudes and different philosophies and different languages and different political systems got together to agree on one particular problem.”</i></p>
<p>He referenced UK conservationist Peter Scott’s cause, the International Whaling Commission, and praised him for getting people and nations around the world to work together to preserve whale stocks.</p>
<p><i>“He got nations around the world to agree that whales were being exterminated and this would be a crime beyond description, and that nations must stop whaling everywhere, and nations around the world did so,”</i> Attenborough said.</p>
<p><i>“They did so knowing that it would actually rob them of a certain amount of national income, so that was a huge advance.”</i></p>
<p>He added that the Paris Agreement – a treaty within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – is “another big advance”.</p>
<p>He said: <i>“I would like to think that the reason the political figures have got that sort of policy that they will know will be at a cost to the national economies is that they are beginning to realise that people worldwide wish that to happen, because they wish to protect the natural world, and I think that view has been helped by what (the Natural History Unit) and other units around the world are doing.”</i></p>
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