Prince Charles has urged followers to be mindful of their carbon footprint as he isolates in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus.
The Prince of Wales, 71, has a ‘mild’ form of the illness and is on the Balmoral estate with his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who has tested negative and is without any symptoms of the virus.
Charles, who is continuing to work from home, shared his passion for wildlife and the environmental issues with a throwback of his work with conservation in a post shared to the Clarence House Instagram account last night.
Explaining that he has been President of the WWF UK for almost a decade, he paid tribute to his father Prince Philip, 98, who was the first President of WWF-UK from its foundation in 1961 to 1982.
Prince Charles, 71, who is continuing to work from home in Scotland, shared his passion for wildlife and the environmental issues with a throwback of his work with conservation in a post shared to the Clarence House Instagram account last night (seen in the South Atlantic in 1999)
The Prince of Wales holds a Green Sea turtle during a visit to Lady Elliot’s Island in Australia in 2018
Charles shared a picture as he visited penguins during a visit to Sea lion Island close to the Falkland Island’s in the South Atlantic in 1999.
Another snap in the collage shows a young Charles admiring the rain forest at the Korup National Park on the last day of his visit to Cameroon in 1990.
Elsewhere he is seen during a visit to Semenggoh Wildlife Centre in Malaysia, a rehabilitation centre for orangutans found injured in the wild or rescued from captivity in 2017.
Elsewhere he holds an Ecuadorian stream tree frog, species named ‘Hyloscirtus princecharlesi’ in honour of the Prince’s support to conservation and environmental campaign in 2005.
Another snap in the collage shows a young Charles admiring the rain forest at the Korup National Park on the last day of his visit to Cameroon in 1990
The caption reads: ‘Get involved with from home tonight at 8.30pm.
‘The Prince of Wales has been President of the WWF UK since 2011.
‘His Royal Highness’ father, The Duke of Edinburgh, President Emeritus of WWF International, was the first President of WWF-UK from its foundation in 1961 to 1982.’
A link to the WWF encourages people to raise awareness for a ‘Earth Hour’, a global environmental movement to stop the destruction of nature, which saw people across the globe switching off their lights for an hour at 8:30pm last night.
Charles tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating at the Balmoral estate in Scotland.
Charles’s doctor believes the royal may have been contagious from March 13 at the earliest – just 24 hours after he last saw his 93-year-old mother the Queen, who is in self-isolation at Windsor Castle with Prince Philip, 98.
His team have been informing anyone who met or came close to him while he was contagious – and those people are expected to go into self-isolation if they haven’t already, according to the Telegraph.
The Prince of Wales feeding an orangutan during a visit to the Sarawak Semenggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Kuching, Malaysia
Prince of Wales looks through binoculars during a visit to Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, a rehabilitation centre for orangutans found injured in the wild or rescued from captivity on November 6, 2017
NHS Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood defended the decision to test the Charles and Camilla, who tested negative, saying there were ‘very good reasons’ but she couldn’t disclose them because of patient confidentiality.
But Clarence House refused to comment on the Prince of Wales’s health after Dr Calderwood appeared to hint Charles and Camilla might have underlying medical conditions that made a coronavirus test necessary.
A source said it was still ‘business as usual’ for Charles, adding: ‘The general plan is the prince will continue maintaining a diary of work but it will be done through telephone calls and digital conferencing.
‘He is likely to focus on core areas – his Sustainable Markets Council work for the environment, his Prince’s Foundation and Prince’s Trust work.’
Prince of Wales holds an Ecuadorian stream tree frog, species named ‘Hyloscirtus princecharlesi’ in honour of the Prince’s support to conservation and environmental campaigns, during a WWF-UK Green Ambassadors Summit attended by school children at Highgrove House on July 5, 2012