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Supporters around the world celebrated Sir David Attengorough’s 96th birthday yesterday

@kickyfacts said – Sir David Attenborough is 96 today. The much loved English broadcaster, natural historian, biologist and author is well known for his climate change campaigning on the highest of world stages. Happy birthday!

@Science_academy tweeted – Today marks Sir David Attenborough's 96th birthday. The Australian Academy of Sciences says let's remember his important message: "If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon."

@Wellmanneredxs write – Communicate your passion. Open the world's eyes to the natural world, in its extraordinary magic, diversity, and vulnerability. Raise generations of wildlife champions. Happy birthday, Sir David Attenborough.

@Paigntonzoo added – A very happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough, who turns 96 today! We're so grateful to him for sharing the wonders of the natural world with so many people.

@_BCT_ The Bat Conservation Trust said: His lifelong passion for nature and wildlife has been captured in countless documentaries which have included many sequences with bats, most recently this magical moment in The Green Planet series.

@timetogarden2 said – Happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough, thank you for teaching us all plants are important and encouraging us to our bit for the planet.

@mason4922 adds – "The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?" Celebrating his 96th birthday, acclaimed British broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough (born 8 May 1926).

@Howiemoran7 poseted – The peerless Sir David Attenborough is 96 today. Happy b irthday you wonderful, remarkable, magnificent human.

@Npglondon – The National Portrait Gallery wrote – "An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment." Wishinga very happy birthday to conservationist, broadcaster and national treasure.