Adora
11-15-2004, 03:49 AM
I don't know how many of you actually follow this, because I never saw it in any news broadcasts in my country.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt movement aiming to curtail the devastating effects of the deforestation occuring in African countries. It's estimated her movement - mostly consisting of poor African women - have planted over 30 million trees since the movement started in 1977.
Maathai was the first women to earn a doctorate degree in East and Central Africa, and is a professor of zoology, and is also the first African woman to be awarded the prize. She's even been arressted and attacked whilst trying to plant the trees with the movement. This year marks a move by the award to acknowledge the impact that sustainable development and a healthy environment has on peace and conflict around the world, since so many conflicts around the world are about resources.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt movement aiming to curtail the devastating effects of the deforestation occuring in African countries. It's estimated her movement - mostly consisting of poor African women - have planted over 30 million trees since the movement started in 1977.
Maathai was the first women to earn a doctorate degree in East and Central Africa, and is a professor of zoology, and is also the first African woman to be awarded the prize. She's even been arressted and attacked whilst trying to plant the trees with the movement. This year marks a move by the award to acknowledge the impact that sustainable development and a healthy environment has on peace and conflict around the world, since so many conflicts around the world are about resources.