Kenyan Urges Planting of Trees Globally
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
NAIROBI, Nov. 8 -- A Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner called on people around the world Wednesday to plant 1 billion trees in the next year, saying the effort is a way ordinary citizens can fight global warming.
"It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make it survive," said Wangari Maathai, who founded Kenya's Green Party and focused on planting trees to address the country's wood fuel crisis.
Maathai said the campaign is meant to inspire ordinary citizens to help the environment. "This is something that anybody can do," she said at a U.N. conference on climate change, held in Kenya.
Africa is the continent expected to suffer most from shifting climate zones and droughts, such as the one now in its fourth year in East Africa.
The tree project, organized by the U.N. Environment Program, calls on individuals, schools and governments to plant trees and then register them on the agency's Web site.
