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The woman who planted 50m trees (with a little help...)
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Professor Wangari Maathai Feted on Wangari Maathai Day
This year, Professor Maathai’s relentless environmental conservation work was immortalized with the naming of a landmark international conference hall in her honor at the August 7th Memorial Park.
Restoring landscapes in partnership with ECOSIA
Last year, we planted 130,000 indigenous tree seedlings in this location and achieved over 80% survival rate.
Mau’s heart is growing colder by day; it has been tampered with
Seeking to curb the wanton destruction, the Green Belt Movement has been advocating for its protection as well as mitigating its obliteration by conducting tree planting exercises and community empowerment seminars on the need to protect this ecosystem.
Wangari Maathai song by Carli Muñoz
With a sense of near-reverence, Muñoz invokes Maathai to inspire action in a world that badly needs our care.
Green Belt Movement awarded at the 1st Africa Environment Partnership Platform
The overall objectives of the Africa Environment Partnership Platform are to place a premium on partnership to establish synergies and a more vibrant global partnership to drive Africa’s environmental sustainability agenda
Ksh 4,456,251 paid to community groups in Trans Nzoia and Bungoma Counties
GBM continuously seeks new ways of highlighting the critical and central role the environment plays in changing the lives of the communities we work with.
Statement by the Green Belt Movement on the Demolition of Structures on Public and Riparian Land
The Green Belt Movement will continue to fight against land grabbing and environmental degradation in this country
Plan to fell Ol Kalou tree planted by Mzee Kenyatta and one in memory of Wangari Maathai opposed
Singing Mau Mau war songs, the veterans surrounded the tree shielding it from a contractor hired to cut it down.
Climate Change is as real as it gets
The success of this Action Plan is not an achievement that can be solely credited to the Organisation. Rather, it is a collaborative effort by all stakeholders.
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