Tuesday, September 27, 2011

KENYA ENVIRONMENTALIST DIES

WHO COULD EVER REPLACE this
Pioneering Spirit? Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a founder of the Green Belt movement which pioneered the planting of trees in Africa.Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday of cancer at the age of 71. Her movement led to the planting of an estimated 45 million trees. BBC (9/26), CNN (9/26), The New York Time