(5 Nov 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Town, South Africa – 5 November 2024
1. Wide shot Prince William arriving on Signal Hill and meeting Megan Taplin, park manager for Table Mountain National Park
2. Wide shot Willam and Talpin walking
3. Wide shot William and Talpin meeting rangers
4. Various William talking with rangers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan Taplin, park manager for Table Mountain National Park:
"He met with a lot of our rangers on the ground – from the terrestrial to the marine area, as well as our firefighters and our special operations team, which works with our K9 unit. So he got to learn about what they do on a daily basis and what challenges they face. We also spoke a lot about ranger wellness and how that’s really important to make sure that rangers are supported, that their families are supported because they’re doing quite dangerous work and difficult work."
6. Wide shot William patting dog belonging to a ranger
7. Various shots William talking with rangers and firefighters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan Taplin, park manager for Table Mountain National Park:
"Table Mountain National Park is a really unique park because it’s a park inside a city or surrounded by a city. We also have the marine protected area on the other side as well. So we face a lot of issues that other national parks don’t. It’s open access. People can access it from thousands of different points. And that means that social ills can spill over into the park as well. So visitor safety is one of our important tasks here, as well as conservation and law enforcement. And then in terms of environmental crime, we’re exposed to things like abalone poaching and flower poaching, bark stripping in the forests. So it’s all those kind of challenges we need to face as well as fires."
9. Wide shot William with Robert Irwin shaking hands with Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis
10. Tracking shot William walks over to group of young people
11. Various, William poses with young people for group photo
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STORYLINE:
Prince William went on an early morning nature walk near South Africa’s Table Mountain on Tuesday, to promote the work of conservation rangers in a unique urban national park.
The Prince of Wales met with some of the rangers who guard Table Mountain National Park, an 85-square-mile (220-square kilometer) area that overlooks Cape Town and spills into the city’s suburbs.
William didn’t go to the top of the famous flat-topped mountain, instead strolling through nature trails on Signal Hill, a foothill that sits by the ocean’s edge.
The prince was accompanied on the walk by Megan Taplin, the park manager, and Robert Irwin, an Australian conservationist and son of the late Steve Irwin. William met with rangers, park firefighters and members of a K9 dog unit.
“He got to learn about what they do on a daily basis and what challenges they face,” Taplin said. “We also spoke a lot about ranger wellness and how that’s really important that rangers are supported, that their families are supported, because they are doing quite dangerous work and difficult work.”
William is in South Africa to promote his annual Earthshot Prize, which awards $1.2 million in grants to five entrepreneurs or organizations for innovative ideas that help the environment and combat climate change. William set up the Earthshot Prize in 2020 through his Royal Foundation and the awards ceremony will be held in Cape Town — the first time it’s been hosted in Africa — on Wednesday night.
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