Explain the roles Played Professor wangari Maathai in environmental conservation in Kenya.
Answer:
- In 1974 Maathai’s concern for the environment made her became a member of the
environment liaison centre.
- She founded the environ-care limited a company that was involved with the
planting of trees to conserve the environment.
-In 1986, she started the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization that involved women in planting of trees in order to conserve the environment.
-Through the Green Belt Movement, she mobilized women to plant more that 20 million trees in their farms, schools, church compounds and other public places.
-In 1986 she established the Pan-African green belt network thereby involving other women in African tree planting exercise.
-In 1998, Maathai protested against allocation of land in karura forest to private developers forcing the KANU government to stop the plan.
-In 1999, she protested against KANUs plan to build a sky scraper (60 storey building) at Uhuru park and thus destroy the public park as a result, the foreign investors in this project cancelled the project.
-In 2001, she collected signatures from the public to protest against land grabbing around Mt. Kenya which could have resulted in massive environmental damage.
-In 2004, Maathai became the first black person in Africa to win the Nobel peace prize due to her environmental conservation efforts.
environment liaison centre.
- She founded the environ-care limited a company that was involved with the
planting of trees to conserve the environment.
-In 1986, she started the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization that involved women in planting of trees in order to conserve the environment.
-Through the Green Belt Movement, she mobilized women to plant more that 20 million trees in their farms, schools, church compounds and other public places.
-In 1986 she established the Pan-African green belt network thereby involving other women in African tree planting exercise.
-In 1998, Maathai protested against allocation of land in karura forest to private developers forcing the KANU government to stop the plan.
-In 1999, she protested against KANUs plan to build a sky scraper (60 storey building) at Uhuru park and thus destroy the public park as a result, the foreign investors in this project cancelled the project.
-In 2001, she collected signatures from the public to protest against land grabbing around Mt. Kenya which could have resulted in massive environmental damage.
-In 2004, Maathai became the first black person in Africa to win the Nobel peace prize due to her environmental conservation efforts.
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