Celebrating Black History Month with my favorite conservation hero, Wangari Maathai. She is the Nobel Peace Prize winning founder of the Green Belt Movement, and an activist for women's rights as well as environmental protection. Wangari is also where I first heard the remarkable Hummingbird story that shaped a lot of my conservation behavior, including my ideas about conservation fitness (connect to the earth in a healthy and positive way!).

Learn more about Wangari and find her books here: https://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai/books

I borrowed all the books from my local library, but I've ordered her memoir Unbowed. So it's entirely possible we will get another Zoo-notable about Wangari in the near future.

The books we discuss today are: Seeds of Change by Jen Cullerton Johnson

Planting Peace by Gwendolyn Hooks

Wangari’s Trees of Peace—Jeanette Winter

Planting the Trees of Kenya—Claire A. Nivola

Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Trees to Bring Change, by Lisa Crayton

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