Richard Prime

Richard Prime worked as adviser to WWF on religion and conservation before helping to launch ARC, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, and serving as its director of communications from 1995 to 2003. During his time with ARC he co-ordinated the 1995 Summit of Religions and Conservation, held in Atami, Japan, and Windsor Castle, England; ran a series of conferences on economics and religion for the New Economics Foundation; developed Hindu-based conservation projects in India; organised the 1998 World Faiths and Development Dialogue at Lambeth Palace, England; and coordinated the 2002 Celebration of Creation as part of Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee celebrations. He is the founder of Friends of Vrindavan, an environmental charity dedicated to conserving sacred forests and to international partnership to fund and organise community-based conservation and humanitarian work in India. As a young man he trained as an architect before spending ten years volunteering in ashrams in India and England. He is author of a dozen books, including Hinduism and Ecology and Wealth of Faiths, and is a regular radio broadcaster for the BBC.