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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Prince's Webcast for the Rainforest [Watch (HLS stream): The Prince's Webcast for the Rainforest](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/smQNatT1.m3u8) (5:31)  _Published 2009-05-05. Prince Charles created a webcast to appeal for the preservation of the world's rainforests_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Painkiller Found in Prince's Possession: Report](/video/WZYRcZh9/) ### Painkiller Found in Prince's Possession: Report [Bruce Springsteen Covers Prince's ](/video/TsTh848G/) ### Bruce Springsteen Covers Prince's [The Prince, a Frog and Their Friends](/video/UlvGDVYu/) ### The Prince, a Frog and Their Friends --- ## Transcript >> May I just start by thanking you for taking the time to watch this webcast. One of the internet strengths is that it can enable diverse communities to come together to ensure that everybody's views and actions can really be made to count. It provides the potential to create global determination for change on a vitally important issue. In this regard, your collective support is needed now in the urgent fight against climate change and more specifically in saving one of the earth's most precious and important resources, the tropical rainforest. Now, you may wonder how climate change and the rainforest are connected. In essence, rainforests help keep our climate cool and absorb nearly a sixth of our CO2 emissions. Yet they are being destroyed at the rate of a football pitch every four seconds and to make matters worse, in addition to removing the tree's absorption capability, this destruction releases hundreds of years of stored carbon into the atmosphere and is a key contributor to climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation are actually greater than all emissions from worldwide transport- in other words, cars, aircraft, and ships put together. Most critically, the rainforest also help provide the oxygen that we breathe and the vital rainfall that waters our crops to feed the whole world. Why are they cut down? Often because rainforest nations quite understandably need to exploit their economic value- to sell the high- quality timber and to farm on the fertile land where the trees once stood. But this has an increasingly devastating effect on the stability of the world's climate. Let alone on the biodiversity that is essential to human existence on this planet. So two years ago, I established my Rainforest Project in order to try and find ways to ensure the trees become more valuable alive than dead so that there is no incentive to cut them down. You are about to see, if you wish, the first ever broadcast of our short sign- up campaign video. It features a number of supporters and our aim, with your help, is to build an online community to call, from the bottom up, for urgent action to protect the rainforest by the time the world's leaders gather in Copenhagen for crucially important international climate discussions at the end of this year. Unless we protect the rainforests, we will most certainly lose the battle against catastrophic climate change. You'll see that the star of the film is a small but important character, a frog, in this case a rainforest frog. As you may be aware, princes and frogs have had a long association. However, our frog has come to symbolize something new. Our frog is a symbol for the world's rainforests- a symbol of action against climate change. So my message to you is quite simple: Saving the rainforest can help save us all before it really is too late. >> Daniel Craig, actor, optimist. >> Pele, athlete. -[ unk ], 12 years old. >> Robin, comedian, cyclist, frog translator. >> Leah. >> Gavin. -[ unk ]. >> Students. >> Harrison Ford, actor, conservationist, friend of frogs. >> Joss Stone, singer. >> Tenzin Gyatso, simple Buddhist monk. -[ unk ], school boy. >> William. >> Harry. >> Trying to preserve the rainforest. >> For all of us. >> Climate change is the greatest threat facing mankind. Every year, destruction of the earth's rainforests releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all of the world's cars, planes, and ships put together. We must act now. Future generations are depending on us. Charles, Prince of Wales. >> Kermit the Frog, amphibian. We need the rainforest. 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