David Cobham obituary

Wildlife film-maker, author and conservationist best known for Tarka the Otter, which was voted one of the greatest family films of all timeDavid Cobham is best remembered for his classic films on British wildlife, including the 1979 cinema feature Tarka the Otter and his 1972 TV programme The Vanishing Hedgerows, the first explicitly environmental film broadcast by the BBC.Cobham, who has died aged 87, made The Vanishing Hedgerows for the corporation's prestigious strand The World About Us. Presented by the author Henry Williamson, it was a powerful elegy to Britain's disappearing farmland wildlife, with shocking scenes showing the fatal effects of pesticides on birds. Continue reading...