Environmental Conflicts

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai speaks on topics close to the heart of all women - scarce natural resources and global conflict. Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=439 In 2004, Wangari Maathai, was the founder of the Green Belt Movement in her home country of Kenya, an environmental group that has restored indigenous forests and assisted rural women by paying them to plant trees in their communities. Since 1977, it has planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya and has been replicated in dozens of other African countries. Maathai is currently Kenya's Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources and a Member of Parliament.
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