Wangari Maathai News, Pictures & Buzz

Clean Cooking Alliance Expands Leadership Council, Adding Heads of SEforALL and GOGLA to Distinguished Group  Yahoo Finance

Growers reject advice on impact of blue gum tree  The Standard

Richard Grossman: Looking for rain? Try reducing population growth  The Durango Herald

Elachi: Iron lady of city politics takes no prisoners  Daily Nation

CS Najib Balala: Rangers are nature’s real life heroes  The Standard

Jenni Murray to depart Radio 4's Woman's Hour  ATV Today

Your guide to the Brooklyn Park primary for City Council  Mshale African Community Newspaper

Putting the joy into environmentalism  Wicked Leeks

Nairobi's street names reveal what those in power want to remember, or forget  Toward Freedom

Frederick Douglass remembered in portrait at Toledo Museum of Art  Toledo Blade

Time to rename Karura Forest after Prof Wangari Maathai  Daily Nation

Jonathon Porritt: 'I'm like Chief Brody in Jaws — on the side of the great white shark'  iNews

Environment Tribunal petitioned to overturn Nema's okay for Sh62bn expressway  The Star, Kenya

Kibra Activist Editar Ochieng' Wins Wangari Maathai Award  Kenyans.co.ke

Arbor Day Foundation Celebrates Environmental Leaders for Tree-Planting Practices  Transmission & Distribution World

World Environment Day: 10 Women POC Planet Activists To Celebrate Everyday  Green Queen Media

President Uhuru pays tribute to Wangari Maathai as he leads nation in marking World Environment Day  The Standard

Reset our interaction with nature  The Star, Kenya

Wangari Mathai's Daughter to Represent Kenya at UN Talks  Kenyans.co.ke

Public interest litigation and expansion of rights  The Standard

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she won the novbel peace prize she spent het wholi life working to protect the environment.

wangari maathai was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2004.she (praise)__ by the nobel committee as a source of inspiration for everyone in africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace.when she started her green belt movement in 1977,kenya was suffering from deforestation and desertification .thousands of trees (cut down) and many families (leave) in poverty as a result.since then ,her successful campaign to mobilize women to plant some 30 million trees (copy) by other countries.during that time the movement (transform) into a campaign on education ,nutrition and other issues.her campaign has not always been popular.mrs maathai (arrest) several times for campaigning against deforestation in africa and once she (beat) unconscious by heavy handed police .but in elections in 2002 she (elect) as an mp as a part of an opposition coalition which swept to power and she (appoint) as a deputy environment minister in 2003