{"id":167510,"date":"2025-06-08T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167510\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:56:09","slug":"prince-william-calls-for-protection-of-worlds-oceans-in-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167510\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William calls for protection of world’s oceans in Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Earthshot winners and past finalists were in the audience.<\/p>\n

Enric Sala, of the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas project, was a finalist in 2021 and has pioneered work to protect marine life.<\/p>\n

He is also part of the team that has produced Sir David Attenborough’s new film, Oceans, which Prince William described as “the most compelling argument for immediate action I have ever seen”.<\/p>\n

“Watching human activity reduce beautiful sea forests to barren deserts at the base of our oceans is heart-breaking,” the Prince said.<\/p>\n

“For many, it is an urgent wake up call to just what is going on in our oceans. But it can no longer be a matter of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.”<\/p>\n

He ended his speech saying action was needed for future generations and quoted Sir David.<\/p>\n

“If we save the sea, we save our world.”<\/p>\n

The Prince interviewed Sir David at the premiere of Oceans last month, with the film described by its producer as “the greatest message [Sir David] has ever told”.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kensington Palace described the speech as a “landmark intervention” by Prince William, using his platform to generate change and bring in investments to scale up ocean solutions.<\/p>\n

While in southern France, the Prince met President Chavez of Costa Rica, France’s President Macron and Prince Albert of Monaco – a supporter of many oceans projects and a key player at the forum.<\/p>\n

Prince William will also attend a closed session, held in private, with ocean experts and investors.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Adam Hale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Earthshot winners and past finalists were in the audience. Enric Sala, of the National Geographic Society’s Pristine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647622524752072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167510","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=167510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}