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Why Mau Forest was part of 'Queen's Canopy'

Queen Elizabeth II shovels earth onto an oak tree during a tree-planting ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Canada. [AP]

The Royal Family of which the late Queen Elizabeth II was the formidable matriarch, are big on conservation, protecting biodiversity and wildlife.

The colonial footprint in Kenya is the reason we have Lake Victoria which British explorer John Hannington Speke named after the then queen in 1858.

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