Harry joins Charles in fight to save reefs

PRINCE HARRY, has shown his support for his father’s fight to save the world’s coral reefs by joining the Prince of Wales at a major conference on the issue.

Harry took his seat among marine experts, global organisations and foreign government figures to hear Charles warn that a “graveyard of destroyed reefs” is not a dire problem for future generations but a catastrophe society faces now.

The heir to the throne also highlighted “one or two outposts” which had yet to turn their attention to climate problems caused by human activity. Charles did not mention names but his comment could be interpreted by some as a criticism of high profile climate change sceptics like US president Donald Trump, who has previously labelled climate change a hoax by the Chinese to hurt US manufacturing, and former Chancellor Lord Lawson, who founded the climate sceptic pressure group Global Warming Policy Forum. The prince said: “...this event is vitally important, for while the world - apart from one or two outposts here and there - has begun to focus, at last, on the profound perils of climate change, far too little attention has been given to the increasingly devastating impact of climate change on the ocean and its biodiversity.” Charles said it was “deeply irresponsible” that people regarded the loss of these rich marine systems as somehow the “price of progress” rather than an “arbiter of our vulnerability”.