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The obituary notice of AUBREY BUXTON, BARON BUXTON OF ALSA

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AUBREY BUXTON, BARON BUXTON OF ALSAAubrey Buxton, latterly Lord Buxton of Alsa, who died on 1 September, 2009, aged 91, as a television executive responsible for the most successful of natural history series, Survival.The programme began in 1961 and ran for the next four decades, with more than 500 programmes being made and using 11 million feet of film reel. It won three Emmy awards and audiences were as high as 18 million.As director of Anglia Television from 1958 to 1988, his other successes included the gameshow Sale of the Century and drama series Tales of the Unexpected.As well creating Survival, his contribution to conservationism included being a founder-trustee of WWF, the environmental organisation. Along with his friend Peter Scott and a handful of other key figures including David Attenborough, he helped create the influential organisation back in 1961.He was involved with several other environmental and wildlife organisations, including the Natural History Museum, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and the London Zoological Society.For his work in natural history, he was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Zoological Society, and both the silver and gold medals of the Royal Television Society.He was created a life peer as Baron Buxton of Alsa, in the County of Norfolk, in May 1978. In 1996, he was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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