马塔伊“森林卫士”奖颁奖典礼

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The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award in 2012 to honour and commemorate the impact of the late Kenyan environmentalist, who championed forest issues across the globe. Maathai was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace in 2004.

Her Green Belt Movement is an environmental organization that empowers communities, and particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods. The movement has also planted over 51 million trees in Kenya. This spirit is revived through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, which was launched with a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature.

Previous Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award winners are: the community forestry movement leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha (2012, Nepal); the environmental campaigner Martha Isabel ‘Pati’ Ruiz Corzo (2014, Mexico); the forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi (2015, Uganda); the forestry activist Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva (2017, Brazil); the forestry activist Léonidas Nzigiyimpa (2019, Burundi); and the activist and social forester Cécile Ndjebet (2022, Cameroon).