Reflecting an awareness of the vital importance of resource management to peace and human security, the Nobel Committee has given the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai.
She is the first African woman to be awarded the peace prize since it was created in 1901.
"I am very excited. I really don't know what to say," Mrs Maathai told reporters when she found out. ...
Mrs Maathai led a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
The committee says she has combined science with social engagement and politics and worked both locally and internationally.
Unfortunately, she then sullied her achievement and her work the next day by repeating the canard that
the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial. Others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."
Maathai, who is a government official in Kenya, was also quoted in August in the Standard (Kenya) as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.
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