Question

What changes in the environment had Wangari Maathai noticed after growing up?

Answer 1

Fifty years ago, when Wangari was a child, the environment was very pristine, very green and very beautiful. As her land was a British colony then, the government started clearing forested mountains to establish commercial plantation of exotic species of trees such as pine, from northern hemisphere and eucalyptus from Australia. Though these trees helped them grow in commercial timber industry, they destroyed the local biodiversity, local flora and fauna.