Carta a Sir David Attenborough

F. Xavier Ferrero Calatayud

F. Xavier Ferrero Calatayud

Naturalist
C/ LEsglsia, 19, 6, 46690
LAlcdia dels Crespins. Valencia. Spain

Sir David Attenborough

Naturalist

Canals, March 23rd 2003

Dear friend,
I am writing to you in order to congratulate your work devoted to
the wildlife defense. I am a follower of your TV programs and books.
Unfortunately, your writing work is difficult to be found traslated into
Spanish. I have been recently reviewing your boork The Living
Planet and The Trial of Life . I would like to know if there are any
other of your books published in Spain.
My interest
(even love) for the animals and nature was
consolidated watching the TV programs of the master Flix Rodrguez
de la Fuente, who I found as a terrible lost for the nature lovers.
Right now, I am working as a High Schoool teacher. However,
during all my life, the most important challenge has been to see how
are done the TV nature programs. This has been, until now, a dream
that I never could covered.
Consequently, I have spend my time during the last years
studying, loving and protecting the nature from my Region located in
a valley south of Valencia Province in the western Mediterrean sea.
My approach has been at local scale, and focussed on the natures
from the school point of view. We enjoy a typical Mediterranean
climate, with a long history of human occupation, which results in a
landscape partially built by nature and by the mankind.
Watching the nature, making picture, drawing, writing and
spreading my findings, I think I cover some of my dreams. Also, I
found that is very important to review the wrintings of others
naturalist from the past. I should mention here the Botanist,
Geographer and Naturalist Cavanilles, who spend some years of his
life at the end of the XVIII century travelling in the easter part of
Iberian Peninsula. His findings are a key point in our kinowledge of
nature here. Somebody told that if Cavanilles would be English,
instead of the Nelson sculture in Trafalgar Square you will see the
Cavanilles face there.
During last decade, I was triying to write this letter in order to
stablish contact with you. As I mentioned before, my dream is to work

close to the nature, and we involved in scientific projects as you have

done until now.
Loocking forward to hearing form you.
Sincerely,
F. Xavier Ferrero Calatayud
PD. El meu agraement al professor i amic Artemi Cerd, per
haver-me ajudat a traduir correctament el text.