b) NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER Wangari Maathai

The tree planting campaign is taking root in my country real fastLatest figures released place Kenya as one of the frontrunners to making this a successThe country started a massive tree planting that saw 140 million trees planted last year.This was in response to the threat of global warming and the subsiding of water supplies.The campaign headed by NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER Wangari Maathai targets 7billion trees by the climatic change conferenceto be held in Copenhagen,Denmark in December.It is said that to invest in our environment is to invest in our future.Kenya we need to do something very fast because currently we have a forest cover of 1.7% against the internationally accepted cover of 10%Under UNEP,this initiative of tree planting is going to go a long way in helping curb all these problems.