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conversation between newsreporter and wangari mathai​

Answer 1

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news reporter: The UN recommends that at least ten percent of a nation's land be forested, but Kenya's forests have shrunk to less than two percent. Are you making any significant progress in reversing that erosion?

Maathai: The situation has improved as awareness has risen. But so many people are poor, and they cut down forests as a source of energy and to grow crops.

news reporter: How do you persuade people to plant trees?

Maathai: We tell them, If you don't take care of this land today, tomorrow you will have rocks, not soil. We teach them how to plant but also to work with others so there's a multiplier effect. We give them money for each tree that survives. That's a real incentive.

news reporter: There's democracy of sorts in Kenya, thanks in part to your struggle, but there's still corruption and land-grabbing

Maathai: Corruption has infiltrated deep into society, so the guy at the bottom with nothing is hoping that corrupt leaders will come down and share a piece of the action. That's why we do civic education: to help people understand how corruption hurts them—how it makes them poorer, unable to send their children to school, unable to provide for themselves.

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Answer 2

Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya and was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. In 1976, she introduced the idea of planting trees with communities. She established The Green Belt Movement (GBM) in 1977, initially to address deforestation. Later the issues of community empowerment and environmental conservation were incorporated. To date, over 30 million trees have been planted, primarily by women, across Kenya. In addition, GBM has been responsible for bringing the environmental agenda into mainstream politics. Prof. Maathai serves on several boards including the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, World Learning, Green Cross International, and Environment Liaison Centre International.

In January 2006, Prof. Maathai along with sister Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Betty Williams and Mairead Maguire became one of the founding members of the Nobel Women's Initiative. She and the GBM received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2005, she was named by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 most influential women in the world. She has written several books, including The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience , her memoir Unbowed, and her important new book, The Challenge for Africa.