Happy 81st Wangari Maathai!
Wangari Maathai would have been 81 years old today. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first Eastern African woman to receive a PhD. She died in 2011, but her legacy is very much alive.
Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize for her political activism, and for founding the Green Belt Movement, Ecosia's reforestation partner in Kenya. Your searches are planting trees according to Prof. Maathai’s method. They are mostly planted around critical water sources, preventing erosion, and increasing both the quantity and the quality of the water.
For Wangari Maathai, however, planting trees was never just about restoring the water cycle. It was also about helping people – including the most marginalized – stand up for their human and environmental rights.
Plant a tree today to celebrate Wangari Maathai’s 81st birthday!
The small act as just planting a tree to commemorate your birthday is a very BIG ACT in biodiversity, both direct and indirectly!
To all the fighting enviromentalists and the ones in the making, let's make it a victory to the unfinished task that Wangari Maathai kick-started.
