King Charles III urged more countries to value nature during a visit to Guyana on Friday, praising its efforts to protect its vast forests while generating millions of dollars from carbon credit sales.

Charles said finding ways to value nature remained a challenge.

“Everybody argues about how much. Well, it’s priceless. That’s the answer,” he said during a meeting with President Irfaan Ali in Georgetown , the capital.

The British monarch condemned what he described as endless deforestation, warning that it was “totally prejudicing our future and other people’s futures, and our health.”

“Nature has the best solutions to everything, really,” he said.

Charles arrived in Guyana on Thursday as part of a nine-day Caribbean tour.…