David Attenborough protects his own environmental habitat - by buying the pub next door!

From Daily Mail:

He has tangled with gorillas and been bombarded by bats. So Sir David Attenborough was well-equipped to deal with a problem right on his own doorstep.

When the veteran TV wildlife presenter realised a proposed building development could compromise the privacy of his home, he made a natural move.

He bought the derelict pub next door to his stunning Edwardian house in Richmond upon Thames, South-West London, for £1million – and so stopped the possibility of a block of flats being built.

Now Sir David, 83, who has been voted the most trusted person in Britain, has finalised plans to extend his powder-blue house by joining it with part of the pub called The Hole In The Wall and promised he will keep the facade.

He said: ‘I have watched with dismay as the property has lain empty for the past two-and-a-half years and become increasingly derelict and unsightly.

‘I wouldn’t say I am rescuing it but the front will be retained.’