Maathai visited Japan in 2005. While here, she expressed admiration for the word mottainai, which refers to the traditional Japanese value of not wasting resources.
In the beginning, the Green Belt Movement organized poor rural women in Kenya to plant trees to stop deforestation and woil erosion. Since then, the movement has expanded, and now over 30 million trees have been planted across 12 African countries.
最初に、グリーンベルト運動(注:マータイ女史が始めた木を植えて森林再生をはかる運動)はケニアの貧しい地方の女性たちを集めて、森林破壊と地盤浸食を食い止めるために木を植え始めました。それ以来、この運動は広がり、今ではアフリカの12か国にわたって3千万本以上の木が植えられています。
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