Budding amateur environmental photographers have until February 28 to submit their work of the rainforest to The Prince's Rainforests Project (PRP) Award.

The award, a new initiative for the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards, joins together the need to better understand the importance of the rainforests to the global climate and to increase awareness of The Prince's Rainforests Project, a project that partners organizations and institutions with the Prince of Wales to improve the rainforest.

Photographers should send images which capture the essence of what the rainforest means to them.

A selection of the best images by amateur photographers will be displayed in Cannes during the Sony World Photography Awards in April 2009, and these images will be used by The Prince's Rainforests Project and Sony on various initiatives throughout the year to help communicate important messages.

For more information, go to http://prp.worldphotographyawards.org/home.asp.