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 4 acres (16,000 m2) 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.
Read more about Ngomongo Villages: Reclamation of Quarry Site, Geography and Climate, Tree Species, Plants and Insects, Wet Lands, Farm Gardens
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