In 2015, the corporation admitted that it had used a semi-domesticated wolf in one episode because the crew were unable to find a wild one.
And shots of a tarantula, purporting to be taken in the Venezuelan jungle, were actually taken in a studio.
At the beginning of this month, it was revealed that a 140-foot high treehouse said to be a home to the Korowai people in Papua New Guinea was built for the benefit of the cameras.
Writer and adventurer Will Millard went to the village to film another BBC series, My Year With The Tribe, and learned the truth.
The BBC said standards had been raised since Human Planet was made. “Since this programme was broadcast in 2011, we have strengthened our training for the BBC’s Natural History Unit in editorial guidelines, standards and values.”
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A-hah! so can we believe the images about the whales and PLASTIC ? – or at least ALL that plastic ? After all, it has come to light that much of the ocean pollution is derived from the Large Rivers draining the Far East / and Asia.