WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Through the Green Belt Movement, Professor Wangari Maathai has helped women plant more than 30 million trees on their farms and in school and church compounds across Kenya. Encouraged by the success of its initiatives in Kenya, the Green Belt Movement established a Pan-African Green Belt Network in 1986.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ms. Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 to plant trees across Kenya, alleviate poverty and end conflict. She was driven by a perceived connection between environmental degradation and poverty and conflict. “Poor people will cut the last tree to cook the last meal, ‘’ she once said.

Detailed explanation-3: -conservation efforts in Kenya …of deforestation and desertification, the Green Belt Movement, an organization founded in 1977 by environmentalist Wangari Maathai (winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize), had planted some 30 million trees by the early 21st century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.