His Royal Highness was also behind the creation of Coronation Meadows, after he read about the alarming loss of wildflower meadows. As a result, and to celebrate his mother’s coronation, he began a movement to protect and restore these precious habitats. Kent Wildlife Trust manages the county’s Coronation Meadow which is in Marden.
Dubbed one of the greatest conservationists of our time by the press, King Charles is also a patron of The Wildlife Trusts and is known to often speak out for nature. The monarch opened Cop21 in Glasgow where he said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us just how devastating a global cross border threat can be. Climate change and biodiversity loss are no different. In fact, they pose an even greater existential threat to the extent that we have to put ourselves on what might be called a war like footing.”
The King’s dedication to conservation has been widely reported, organically farming his own estates since 1990 and planting miles of hedgerows. He has always been an advocate for the environment, seemingly ahead of his time, and gave his first speech about the dangers of plastic pollution at age 21.