As a way of improving nature, Bamburi Cement made a Haller park as an avenue to revive the waste land.
Haller is a nature park
in Bamburi -Mombasa, on the Kenyan Coast. It is
the transformation of a quarry wasteland
into an ecological paradise.
The reason why it was
created was because over the years cement production grew to 1.2
million tons per 25 million tons. The area soon became inhospitable arid
wasteland with brackish water. The Bamburi
Cement company decided
to rehabilitate the quarries which seemed to be an inconceivable task.
No
plants had been able to establish themselves in the quarries. In 1959, Dr. Rene Haller was hired as manager of the garden
department and given the task to beautify the area. In the 1970s Rene embarked
on the reforestation project and later also introduction of wild animals in the
park.
Haller Park now
holds a variety of plant and animal species which serve as a recreation hot
spot to tourists and locals.
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| photo by Emmanuel Ewaju |
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| photo by Emmanuel Ewaju |
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| photo by Emmanuel Ewaju |
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| photo by Emmanuel Ewaju |
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| photo by Emmanuel Ewaju |
With time the place has
developed and Kenya wild life services added more wild
animals.
This has improved on
tourism in the area as people from different places come to see the animals at
a cheaper cost especially because its affordable .
In the Haller park,
there are snakes ,tortoises , Buffalos & so much more. for those who have
no money to go to the game parks , that`s the place they can go to.
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