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Benefits of trees
Visionary Trailblazer
Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She turned to trees as an instrument of advancing human rights, environmental justice and civil disobedience
The Incredible Journey
Once upon a time there was a man named Richard St Barbe Baker whose goal was to protect the planet’s existing trees, to reforest the Sahara and to save earth from environmental destruction
An Environmental Investigator
Don Pinnock is a freelance investigative environmentalist journalist / photographer.
We follow his articles in the Daily Maverick with interest, and recommend you do too.
An Ecological Tragedy
The shot-hole borer beetle could well be one of South Africa’s largest ecological tragedies of all time judging by the number of trees it has killed since arriving in 2017.
No remedy has yet been discovered for this devastating threat. And the clock is ticking.