Dr. Maathai, one of the most widely respected women on the continent, played many roles — environmentalist, feminist, politician, professor, rabble-rouser, human rights advocate and head of the Green Belt Movement, which she founded in 1977. Its mission was to plant trees across Kenya to fight erosion and to create firewood for fuel and jobs for women.
GetReligionBlog notes the religious inspiration behind her work:
And Dr.E at PersianParadox discusses meeting her (Dr. E also works on ecological preservation)
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