The people that were involved in the Green Belt Movement was the founder, Wangari Maathai, the United Nations Voluntary Fund, and The National Council for the Women of Kenya. Essentially, this started in 1977 when Maathai saw that immense environmental degradation in Kenya was disproportionately affecting women and increasing the amount of poverty in the nation. The amount of deforestation was surpassing the number of trees that were being replanted to compensate for the tree removal. The Green Belt Movement has also partnered with the United Nation’s Environmental Programme in its Billion Tree Campaign.
