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"Prince William&amp;apos;s paternal instincts have kicked into overdrive since Kate Middleton gave birth to the couple&amp;apos;s first child, Prince George, on July 22. But it&amp;apos;s not just his son he wants to protect -- it&amp;apos;s the whole world. Speaking with Max Foster in a new excerpt from the upcoming CNN special, Prince William&amp;apos;s Passion: New Hope, New Father, the first-time dad explains how having a baby has intensified his commitment to his conservation work in Africa.\r\n&amp;quot;Suddenly you start thinking of like, wow, there is stuff you want to safeguard for the future,&amp;quot; the 31-year-old royal says. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve always believed it, but to actually really feel it as well, it&amp;apos;s coming through powerfully now.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nPrince William hopes to pass that love of conservation on to his son -- much like his mother, the late Princess Diana, passed her philanthropic spirit on to him. &amp;quot;She would come back with all these stories and full of excitement and just passion for what she had been doing,&amp;quot; he recalls of her trips to Africa in the 1990s. &amp;quot;And I sort of used to sit there, quite a sort of surprised little boy at the time, taking it all in.&amp;quot;\r\nHe continues: &amp;quot;What I am doing in Africa is probably not as obviously, visually if you like, related to what she did. But helping communities over in the U.K., and around the world...it&amp;apos;s about helping the needy and the vulnerable.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe prince notes that the continent has special significance for his wife, too. He and Middleton were in Kenya in 2010 when he proposed. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;apos;t really plan it that far in advance, like I just knew I wanted it to feel comfortable where I did it, and I wanted it to mean something, other than just the act of getting engaged,&amp;quot; he explains to Foster of their engagement.\r\n&amp;quot;She understands what it means to me being in Africa, and my love of conservation,&amp;quot; he adds.\r\nSo does that mean a family trip is in the cards? &amp;quot;I think as soon as George grows up a little bit more. I will be hung if I go now,&amp;quot; William quips. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s definitely a plan of mine to go back to Africa. I will always have Africa as a special place that I love to go back to.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn fact, he goes back there in his head sometimes, just to escape from the pressures of his daily life. &amp;quot;I regularly daydream,&amp;quot; he confesses. &amp;quot;Africa is definitely one of the places I go to...I have hundreds of animals on my iPhone. So if I am ever having quite a stressful day...you can put a buffalo on in the background or a cricket.&amp;quot;\r\nHe plans to immerse his son in the African landscape, too. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll have toy elephants and rhinos around the room,&amp;quot; he said in an earlier excerpt from the interview, referring to his plans for an African-themed nursery. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ll cover it in, you know, lots of bushes and things like that. [We&amp;apos;ll] make him grow up as if he&amp;apos;s in the bush.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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