BBC admits faking scene in Human Planet series

Show makers staged scenes of Papua New Guinea tribe living in tree houses

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The BBC has admitted that scenes in its Human Planet series were staged by the programme’s makers.

An episode of the 2011 documentary inaccurately portrayed the Korowai people, a tribe from the Indonesian province of Papua New Guinea, setting up home in a tree house towering 30 metres above the forest floor.

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