Richard Boll / National Portrait Gallery, London

Veteran TV naturalist David Attenborough loves humans as much as other wildlife. But not when global populations are out of control, he tells Alison George

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“I’M NOT doing anything exciting right now, like wrestling with gorillas. I’m working on radio scripts,” says David Attenborough, a bit apologetically. Yet while his home in the leafy London suburb of Richmond is no longer full of the woolly monkeys, bushbabies or other exotic creatures his autobiography had living there, it’s still a rich habitat. His collection of tribal art dominates the walls, a tribute to human inventiveness. …