Memorial ceremony honours one the greatest environmental campaigners of our time - 13.10.2011

On Friday 14 October, the Faculty of Life Sciences paid its respect to one of the greatest environmental campaigners of our time, the Kenyan professor and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Wangari Maathai who died on 25 September, aged 71. A tree was planted in the Life Science Gardens in her honour.

 

In addition to the title of honorary doctor at University of Copenhagen, professor Maathai  received many distinctions and awards for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace in Kenya, including the Nobel Prize in 2004.

 

At the memorial ceremony, Centre Director of Forest and Landscape at LIFE- Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen, Niels Elers Koch, planted a tree in memory of professor Wangari Maathai and her untiring work for a greener planet.

 

Read more about Professor Wangari Maathai in Danish

 

The University Post sent a reporter to the tree planting ceremony for the Kenyan environmentalist, the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai. Read the article ‘University mourns loss of Kenyan activist’  -

 

See photos from the ceremony in the University Post.

 

You may also like to read an article from November 2010 ‘The fight is on to save Kenya’s green lung’ about the work of the late scientist and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Professor Wangari Maathai from the University of Nairobi