摆拍造假，你竟是这样的BBC | BBC admits scenes from Human Planet were faked
Viewers of the BBC's Human Planet marvelled at the ingenuity of Papua New Guinea's Korowai people as they built a tree house high above the ground for a tribal family to use as their new home.
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The episode of the acclaimed documentary series proceeded to show the family moving into the tree house and setting up home there, 140 feet up amid the tall canopy of the rainforest.
But it has now emerged that the entire sequence was staged for the cameras, plunging the BBC into a new row over fake programs.
The corporation admitted that a sequence filmed for an episode of Human Planet in 2011 misled viewers by giving the impression the tallest tree houses built by the Korowai people were used as homes.
In fact the families live in tree houses built much closer to the ground, leaving the higher ones for ritual purposes, or simply meeting places for the tribe's teenagers.
The program also failed to make it clear to viewers that the particular tree house filmed for that episode had been erected for the benefit of the cameras.
The blunder was only discovered when the writer and adventurer Will Millard returned with a film crew for the forthcoming BBC Two series My Year With The Tribe.
During discussions with members of the tribe Millard was made aware of misleading statements broadcast seven years ago, leading the BBC to review the original episode of Human Planet.
In the upcoming series he is seen visiting the same Korowai tribe, when — during a trip to a treehouse — they tell him the raised houses "are not our home" and that they were "commissioned for filming".
During the encounter Millard said: "That's why they're worried (about) how many people come up here and we might fall through the floor. This is not where they live, this is total artifice."
In a statement the corporation said: "The BBC has been alerted to a breach of editorial standards in an episode of Human Planet from 2011 which concerns the Korowai people of West Papua.
"During the making of BBC Two's upcoming documentary series, My Year with the Tribe, a member of the tribe discusses how they have built very high tree houses for the benefit of overseas program makers."
It added: "The BBC has reviewed a sequence in Human Planet depicting this and found that the portrayal of the tribe moving into the treehouse as a real home is not accurate. Since this program was broadcast in 2011, we have strengthened our mandatory training for all staff in editorial guidelines, standards and values."
It is not the first time that the eight-part series, narrated by the actor John Hurt, has been embroiled in a fakery scandal. In 2015 it emerged that the production crew used a semi-domesticated wolf after being unable to find a "wild" wolf to film on location.
In that episode, called Deserts: Life in the Furnace, two Mongolian camel herders fired shots in the direction of the "wild" wolf as it ran across the Gobi desert then discussed their frustration at failing to kill it.
The BBC admitted that in reality the semi-domesticated wolf had been let off a lead just off camera and was filmed simply running to its handler, who was just out of shot.
The incident recalled the row over fake documentary sequences which engulfed the BBC in 2011 when it was accused of deliberately fooling viewers of Human Planet.
It emerged that the BBC had filmed shots of a tarantula spider in a studio for an episode about wildlife in the Venezuela jungle.
It also emerged that a sequence in which a polar bear appeared to give birth in the Arctic was in fact filmed in a Dutch zoo.
David Attenborough, the program's presenter, said last year that the sequence would not now be filmed in that way and that the BBC was taking more care to avoid accusations of fakery.
Sir David defended the sequence at the time, saying that if he had told viewers that the footage was from a zoo "it would completely ruin the atmosphere and destroy the pleasure of the viewers and destroy the atmosphere you are trying to create".
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Sources: The Telegraph, The Guardian
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