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Nairobi National Park is a national park in Kenya. Established in 1946, the national park was Kenya's first. It is located approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south of the centre of Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, with an electric fence separating the park's wildlife from the metropolis. Nairobi's skyscrapers can be seen from the park. The proximity of urban and natural environments has caused conflicts between the animals and local people and threatens animals' migration routes.Still, despite its proximity to civilisation and relative small size for an African national park, Nairobi National Park boasts a large and varied wildlife population. Migrating herbivores gather in the park during the dry season, and it is one of Kenya's most successful rhinoceros sanctuaries.HistoryColonists arrived in the area where the park is located in the late 19th century. At this time, the Athi plains east and south of what is today Nairobi had plentiful wildlife. Nomadic Maasai lived and herded their cattle among the wildlife. Kikuyu people farmed the forested highlands above Nairobi. As Nairobi grew—it had 14,000 residents by 1910—conflicts between humans and animals increased. Residents of the city carried guns at night to protect against lions. People complained that giraffes and zebras walked on and ruined their flower beds. Animals were gradually confined to the expansive plains to the west and south of Nairobi, and the colonial government set this area aside as a game reserve. Settlers from Nairobi including Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa, rode horses among gazelles, impala, and zebras in this reserve.
Karura Forest is an urban forest in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The forest was gazetted in 1932 and is managed by the Kenya Forest Service in conjunction with the Friends of Karura Forest Community Forest Association.Due to its proximity to a growing city, there have been plans to reduce the forest in favour of housing and other development. However, these plans have been controversial with conservationists. In the late 90's there were housing projects that would have excised portions of the forest. Conservationists, led by Wangari Maathai, the leader of Green Belt Movement who later became a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, carried out a much publicised campaign for saving the forest. Karura Forest became also a symbol of controversial land grabbings in Kenya.GeographyKarura Forest has an area of 1 063.0 ha, making it largest of three main gazetted forest in Nairobi. The others are Ngong Forest and Ololua Forest. The centrally located Nairobi Arboretum is much smaller.Karura Forest is located north of central Nairobi and is bordered by the suburbs of Muthaiga, Gigiri, Runda, Ridgeways, Mathare North, Peponi and New Muthaiga. The western part of the forest is also known as Sigiria Forest.
يقع متحف كارين بليكسن على بعد 10 كيلومتر عن نيروبي عاصمة كينيا في أسفل تلال نغونغ ، والمتحف هو عبارة عن المنزل الذي عاشت فيه الكاتبة الدانمركية كارين بلكسين التي أشتهرت من خلال أعمالها الكتابية والتي من أشهرها خارج أفريقيا وظلال على العشب.التاريخبُني هذا المنزل في عام 1912 بواسطة المهندس السويدي أوك سجغريد واشترته كارين بلكسين وزوجها "البارون برور فون بلكسين" في عام 1921، وعاشت كارين في هذا المنزل أثناء إقامتها في أفريقيا في حقبة الحكم الاستعماري البريطاني لشرق أفريقيا. وأقامت مزرعة لأشجار البن في تلك الأرض القريبة من منزلها وبقيت هناك حتى عادت إلى موطنها الدانمرك عام 1931.لقد روت كارين بلكسين قصة حياتها في أفريقيا في كتابها خارج أفريقيا وكذلك روايتها "ظلال على العشب" ، وبعد وفاة الكاتبة في عام 1962 في الدانمرك تبرعت الحكومة الدانمركية بالمنزل في عام 1964 وسلمته للحكومة الجديدة في كينيا باعتباره هدية الاستقلال.أفتتح المنزل للعامة والسياح في عام 1986 ليصبح واحداً من متاحف كينيا الوطنية وذلك بعد شهرة هذه الكاتبة وروايتها خارج أفريقيا التي تحولت إلى فيلم سينمائي مثلت فيه النجمة السينمائية ميريل ستريب دور الكاتبة، والسينمائي روبرت ريدفورد في دور خليلها دينس هاتون، ومن إخراج "سيدني بولاك" وقد فاز الفيلم بجائزة الأوسكار في عام 1985.
