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Environmental hypocrisy on a right royal scale
PETER FROST makes his contribution to the millions of words that have been written about Prince Philip over the last few days
Some of the animals that royals such as Philip have killed include pheasant, tigers, hen harriers, and the wild urial mountain sheep
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A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
AMONG the never-ending output of obsequious and sycophantic tributes to the dead Duke of Edinburgh, a constantly repeated theme was what a wonderful environmentalist and conservationist he had been. This, they told us, was a man who genuinely loved wild animals.
Most of them referenced the start of his love and protection of wildlife as long ago as 1961 when he became president of an organisation that would eventually become the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
That date rang a bell with me. I checked my files and, yes, I was right. In 1961 Philip and his wife the Queen went off to India, where the animal-loving prince shot an eight-and-a-half-foot tiger, a 13-foot crocodile and some rare wild urial mountain sheep. Even today the urial is still fighting against extinction and features on the Red List of Indian animals.
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