{"id":5633,"date":"2019-09-30T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"prince-harry-protecting-nature-may-sound-hippy-but-is-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/30\/prince-harry-protecting-nature-may-sound-hippy-but-is-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry: Protecting Nature &#8216;May Sound Hippy&#8217; But Is Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By BBC Africa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Protecting nature is\n&#8220;fundamental to our survival&#8221; and should not be dismissed as\n&#8220;hippy&#8221;, the Duke of Sussex has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2019\/09\/29\/conservation-fundamental-survival-must-overcome-greed-apathy\/\"><strong>in the Daily Telegraph,<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;Prince Harry said\nhumanity needs to beat &#8220;greed, apathy and selfishness&#8221; to guarantee\nits survival in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it is essential to &#8220;co-exist&#8221;, and learn from\nmistakes &#8220;to protect the world&#8217;s most valuable assets&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as he prepares to visit a conservation project in\nMalawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his visit to the Liwonde National Park, the\nduke is expected to pay tribute to Matthew Talbot&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-48190628\"><strong>a British soldier killed\nby an elephant earlier this year<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;while working as a\ncounter-poaching operator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, at a reception at the official residence of Britain&#8217;s\nHigh Commissioner to Malawi, he said a major collaborative effort &#8220;across\nagencies, borders and continents&#8221; is needed to end the poaching of animals\nin Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince Harry also held talks with Malawi&#8217;s President Peter Mutharika\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-49874245\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa Protecting nature is &#8220;fundamental to our survival&#8221; and should not be dismissed as &#8220;hippy&#8221;, the Duke of Sussex has said. Writing&nbsp;in the Daily Telegraph,&nbsp;Prince Harry said humanity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}