Obama Gets Second Act as National Parks Champion on Netflix

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(Bloomberg) — Former President Barack Obama’s next act in retirement: narrating a new nature documentary series on Netflix.

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The five-part series “Our Great National Parks” will feature locations around the world and premieres on April 13. Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama entered a multiyear deal with Netflix Inc. in 2018 to create a “diverse mix” of programs through their Higher Ground Productions firm. In conjunction with the series, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Freeborne Impact and Higher Ground have launched Wild For All, an initiative to encourage people experience nature and take steps to protect it, “not only in faraway places, but in the everyday wild at our doorsteps too.”

The series is the latest expression of Obama’s interest in public land. The Obama administration put more than 550 million acres of land and water under permanent protection over the course of his presidency. It designated more than two dozen new national monuments, including Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. It also banned offshore oil drilling in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

The Obama administration also took an aggressive stance on climate change issues, directing more than $90 billion toward developing renewable energy resources, electric cars and green buildings.