Kenya: I Could Give Up My Seat to Save Forests, Says Maathai

4 October 2004

Nairobi — Environment assistant minister Wangari Maathai would rather sacrifice her political career than allow the depletion of forests through the shamba system.

She would not sit back and watch as forests were turned into farms, just to protect her political career, she said at the weekend.

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