Wangari Maathai
1940 – 2011 · Kenya · Peace, Biology
Nobel Peace Prize, 2004
Green Belt Movement founder; 51 million trees and a democracy campaign.
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Inherited from1
- Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964 · Biology, Literature
Silent Spring's civic ecology is the template for the Green Belt Movement's organising.
Passed the work to1
- Abiy Ahmed
1976 · Peace
Ethiopia's mass tree-planting drives are the Green Belt model at state scale.
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