The Only Person To Win Nobel Prize For Planting Trees Is A Women!

She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement. Planted over 51 million trees.

The great women is Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011). She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastic (Benedictine College) and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

In 2004, Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize – becoming the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize – for her work with the Green Belt Movement.Maathai was a leader in Ecofeminist movement. She grew up in rural community, called Ihithe, in Kenya and earned both a bachelors and masters degree from universities in the United States. Maathai was the first Eastern African woman to receive a PhD from the University College of Nairobi.

This non-governmental organization (NGO) uses the direct action of planting trees and facilitating community education to change the current system of oppression that prevents women in rural Kenya from accessing education, resources and land. This form of activism, as direct community empowerment, has been replicated around the world.

The Green Belt Movement functions to support and provide resources to communities for the purpose of demanding democratic space and accountability from national leaders.

 Communities in Kenya (both men and women) have been motivated and organised to both prevent further environmental destruction and restore that which has been damaged.

Wangari Maathai died of complications arising from ovarian cancer while receiving treatment at a Nairobi hospital on 25 September 2011

Google Doodle celebrated the life of the late Kenyan environmental and poliitcal activist, Wangari Maathai, on April 1.

 On 25 September 2013, the Wangari Maathai Trees and Garden was dedicated on the lawn of the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning.[75] The memorial includes two red maples symbolizing Maathai’s "commitment to the environment, her founding of the Green Belt Movement, and her roots in Kenya and in Pittsburgh" and a flower garden planted in a circular shape that representing her "global vision and dedication to the women and children of the world" with an ornamental maple tree in the middle signifying "how one small seed can change the world"

World's Largest Tree Covers 18,918 Square Meters Of Land!

Believe It Or Not Its True!

This two hundred and fifty years old is worlds largest tree spread along 18,918 square meters of land (3.5 acres). From a distance, the tree has the appearance of a forest, but what appear to be individual trees are actually aerial roots- around 3,600 of them.

This is a satellite view of the tree.

It is The Great Banyan Tree in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden near Kolkata (Calcutta) India, making it the widest tree in the world.

The Great Banyan tree is over 250 years old, and its date of birth is doubtful. there is no clear history of the tree as to the time of planting etc. but it is mentioned in many travel books of the nineteenth century as a very spectacular element.With its large number of aerial roots, which grow from the branches and run vertically to the ground and looks like is has so many trunks, The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree.

A 330 meter long road was built around its circumference, but the tree continues to spread beyond it. The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m. and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m; it has at present 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root.

 It survived two great cyclones in 1864 and 1867, when some of its main branches were broken.After two cyclones which led to a fungal attack, the tree’s main 15.7-meter-wide (51-foot) trunk had to be removed. Fortunately, the "clonal colony" of tree itself remains healthy.A monument has been erected to the dead trunk, but is hardly accessible to visitors, who only have access to the perimeter of the tree.

Suppose we have million such trees, What a better wish for our Mother Earth. What do you think? Please share your thoughts. 

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