{"id":150972,"date":"2025-06-02T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150972\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:22:08","slug":"robert-irwin-sings-praises-of-prince-william-true-environmental-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150972\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin sings praises of Prince William: &#8216;True environmental hero&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1317626_9410567_Prince-William_updates.jpg\" alt=\"The son of late conservationist Steve Irwin is the Global Ambassador for Williams Earthshot Prize\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The son of late conservationist Steve Irwin is the Global Ambassador for William&#8217;s Earthshot Prize\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robert Irwin has nothing but praise for his conservationist collaborator Prince William.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Us Weekly ahead of the Steve Irwin Gala in May, the 21-year-old wildlife warrior opened up about teaming up with the Prince of Wales on environmental efforts, calling it \u201can incredible synergy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Prince William has been such an amazing person to work with,\u201d Irwin, 21, said in the interview published Sunday, June 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s wonderful that someone so influential\u2026 is using that to really better our environment,\u201d he added, calling William \u201ca true environmental hero.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Irwin, the son of late Australian conservationist Steve Irwin, was named a Global Ambassador for Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Prize. The initiative supports groundbreaking environmental solutions across five key categories, including climate repair and nature preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Irwin has not only championed the project publicly but also attended its Singapore ceremony and continues to push its mission worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Irwin added that he and the future king have become close allies in the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve definitely compared a lot of notes in the conservation space,\u201d he shared. \u201cAnd plus, he\u2019s just a great guy. When you have a conversation with him, he\u2019s the most lovely, intelligent person to talk to and is just so easygoing, so much fun.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a really, really, really good guy,\u201d he reiterated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of late conservationist Steve Irwin is the Global Ambassador for William&#8217;s Earthshot Prize\u00a0 Robert Irwin has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,64431,533,3577,64433,7794,2832,532,2831,21365,7710,519,64432,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-150972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-irwin","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-of","14":"tag-praises","15":"tag-prince","16":"tag-prince-of-wales","17":"tag-prince-william","18":"tag-princess-of-wales","19":"tag-robert","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-sings","23":"tag-uk-royal-family","24":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611391306883382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}