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Mongabay: Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai died Sunday after a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 71.
Maathai is best known for founding the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in 1977. The initiative empowered rural women by getting them engaged in management and protection of forests. Over the past three decades, the Green Belt Movement has planted tens of millions of trees across Kenya and trained thousands of women in agroforestry, bee-keeping, and other sustainable livelihoods.......
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Kenya: Nobel laureate and Green Belt Movement founder Wangari Maathai dead at 71
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 26th, 2011
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