The Environment Chronicle
Notable environmental events between 2004 and 2004 Deselect
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- 1 0 Events (Historical)
- 100 0 Events (Historical)
- 200 0 Events (Historical)
- 300 0 Events (Historical)
- 400 0 Events (Historical)
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- 800 0 Events (Historical)
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- 1000 0 Events (Historical)
- 1100 0 Events (Historical)
- 1200 2 Events (Historical)
- 1300 3 Events (Historical)
- 1400 2 Events (Historical)
- 1500 2 Events (Historical)
- 1600 0 Events (Historical)
- 1700 4 Events (Historical)
- 1800 26 Events (Historical)
- 1900 5 Events (Historical)
- 1910 6 Events (Historical)
- 1920 6 Events (Historical)
- 1930 7 Events (Historical)
- 1940 7 Events (Historical)
- 1950 15 Events (Historical)
- 1960 25 Events (Historical)
- 1970 106 Events (Historical)
- 1980 139 Events (Historical)
- 1990 271 Events (Historical)
- 2000 30 Events (Historical)
- 2001 32 Events (Historical)
- 2002 39 Events (Historical)
- 2003 37 Events (Historical)
- 2004 44 Events (Historical)
- 2005 47 Events (Historical)
- 2006 46 Events (Historical)
- 2007 57 Events (Historical)
- 2008 119 Events (Historical)
- 2009 286 Events (Historical)
- 2010 315 Events (Historical)
- 2011 293 Events (Historical)
- 2012 231 Events (Historical)
- 2013 331 Events (Historical)
- 2014 366 Events (Historical)
- 2015 374 Events (Historical)
- 2016 341 Events (Historical)
- 2017 310 Events (Historical)
- 2018 25 Events (Historical)
- 2019 4 Events (Historical)
- 2020 0 Events (Historical)
- 2021 0 Events (Historical)
- 2022 0 Events (Historical)
- 2023 0 Events (Historical)
- 2024 0 Events (Historical)
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Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was praised by the awarding committee as "a source of inspiration for everyone in Africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace". A pioneering academic, her role as an environmental campaigner began after she planted some trees in her back garden. This inspired her in 1977 to form an organisation - primarily of women - known as the Green Belt Movement aiming to curtail the devastating effects of deforestation and desertification. Her desire was to produce sustainable wood for fuel use as well as combating soil erosion. Her campaign to mobilise poor women to plant some 30 million trees has been copied by other countries.
