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Ngomongo Villages is a well-known sustainable eco-cultural tourist village located in Mombasa, Kenya. Once a sun baked, arid, barren and rocky base of a former limestone mine, the floor of this quarry was barely five feet above the slightly salty water table. Dr. Frederick Gikandi, a local medical doctor started single handedly to reclaim this quarry by planting of eighty different indigenous trees; later followed the easier to grow casuarina trees. Public awareness to tree planting was raised by inviting the public to join in the reclamation process. To date, ngomongo is fanning out its reclamation exercises to the surrounding farms by recruiting the local farmers into planting trees to mark out their farm borders. The ultimate plan is to fan out the success locally, regionally and then nationally. ==Reclamation of quarry site== The Ngomongo quarry in 1991 was a neglected wasteland of approximately . This vast urban eyesore resulted from coral limestone mining. Inspired by a previously successful project, Haller Park initiated by Dr. Rene Haller in Bamburi Beach, Dr. Gikandi applied Haller's approach to rehabilitate the barren quarry. It was a hazard to the neighbours as it acted as a retreat for robbers. At around this time, the Mombasa municipal council had earmarked the quarry as the municipal refuse dumping site. if carried out this would have contaminated the water table which lies only four feet below the quarry floor, and by extension the Indian Ocean coastal and marine ecosystem. The built up surrounding urban neighbourhood would have suffered air pollution from the decomposing dumped municipal refuse. Once reclamation work had started, he then involved individuals and the community in tree planting. This was later followed by incorporation of cultural tourism to ensure sustainability. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ngomongo Villages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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