トレイシーリースさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トレイシーリースInstagram)「Today we celebrate Wangari Muta Maathai, who was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. Wangari was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. ⁠ While working with the National Council of Women of Kenya, Maathai developed the idea that village women could improve the environment by planting trees to provide a fuel source and to slow the processes of deforestation and desertification. The Green Belt Movement, an organization she founded in 1977, had by the early 21st century planted some 30 million trees. Leaders of the Green Belt Movement established the Pan African Green Belt Network in 1986 in order to educate world leaders about conservation and environmental improvement. As a result of the movement’s activism, similar initiatives were begun in other African countries, including Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe. ⁠ In addition to her conservation work, Maathai was also an advocate for human rights, AIDS prevention, and women’s issues, and she frequently represented these concerns at meetings of the United Nations General Assembly. She was elected to Kenya’s National Assembly in 2002 with 98 percent of the vote, and in 2003 she was appointed assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife. When she won the first Nobel Prize awarded to a black woman for Environmentalism in 2004. The Nobel committee commended her “holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights, and women’s rights in particular.”⁠ ⁠ Wangari Maathai is a shining example of a woman taking the initiative to support the woman of her community and the world through environmental advocacy. #BlackHistoryMonth #WangariaMutaMaathai #Environmentalism⁠」2月13日 2時03分