Prince Charles on the destruction of the rainforests

Title

Prince Charles on the destruction of the rainforests

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

17 May 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:27

Description

Environment correspondent John Allen reports on the Prince of Wales’s speech to the Royal Geographical Society in London. Prince Charles spoke out on the problems posed by the loss of the world’s tropical rainforests, calling the large-scale destruction of vegetation, biocide.

Contributors

Prince Charles; Prince of Wales; John Allen

Keywords

Royal family; Royalty; Environment; Trees; Tropical forests; Deforestation; Royal Geographical Society; Midday News

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