CLEAN ENVIROMENT --- Restoring the beautiful environment of childhoods
Two young people who are restoring the beautiful environment of their childhoods Some people want to protect our living planet because they are passionate about social justice. Others envision a future of clean technology and renewable energy. But Forbi Nyosai from Cameroon and E Wen Wong from New Zealand are driven to preserve nature by memories of the beautiful environments they grew up in. Forbi Nyosai is a final year student of environmental science at the University of Buea, Cameroon, who was first inspired to act on climate when revisiting a beach he had played on as a child. "I went back to that same beach and saw there was a lot of plastic there. Moving around my community, I realised plastic was a big problem, and I had to do something about it." Inspiration also came from other sources for Forbi: “I come from a middle-income home; my dad was a chef, so we could afford TV. I'd watch National Geographic Discovery channels. I wanted to learn more about the pr...