By MARTIN PALMER | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 10:22 Share CLOSE Prince Philip and Martin Palmer at a meeting in Buckingham Palace on April 19, 2017. [Photo provided to China Daily] Today I am mourning the loss of Prince Philip, someone I worked with for nearly four decades and who was my friend. In that time, I watched him become the inspiration for the largest civil society environmental movement in the world-that of the world's religions. He was also a man who had a special affection for one of the greatest and most ecological of all religions-Daoism. One of the very last public events he did before he retired at the age of 95 was to welcome the senior leadership of the Chinese Taoist Association to a meeting at Windsor Castle to celebrate the launch of a major eight-year plan by the Taoists to increase their activities to protect nature.