SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY

Sustaining Biodiversity

Sustaining Biodiversity

Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement

Maathai founded the movement of the Green Belt (Green Belt Movement) in 1977. She began by planting seven trees on Earth Day to honor the women who run the environmentalism of Kenya. This movement, supported by the Kenyan across the country, has planted over thirty million trees, to prevent soil erosion. In 1997, Kenya's second multiparty elections were marred by ethnic violence. Maathai was a candidate for president of Kenya, but, his own party had withdrawn before even talk to him.

Its world-famous was gained in its opposition to the project for the construction ...