Wangari Maathai - founder of the Green Belt movement

This tribute explores the remarkable work of Professor Wangari Maathai.

Professor Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt movement, a movement of rural Kenyan women, who, connected with an understanding of the relationship between their food, water and livelihoods to healthy ecosystems - mobilised in their thousands to plant millions of trees to restore green belt landscapes across Kenya and beyond.


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