15 Feb 2008

ENN: Britain's Prince Charles urges rainforest funding

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By Paul Taylor

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles, called on Thursday for a global fund to preserve tropical rainforests from destruction.

"In the simplest of terms, we have to find a way to make the forests worth more alive than dead," the heir to the British throne told the European Parliament in an address.

"The doomsday clock of climate change is ticking ever faster towards midnight," he said.



Britain's Prince Charles urges rainforest funding