Ethiopian Heritage Trust
A not-for-profit charity supporting the Ethiopian Heritage Trust in Addis Ababa
Entoto Natural Park
Restoring Nature
This is the main project of the Ethiopian Heritage Trust.
The Park is 13 square kilometres and lies immediately north of Addis Ababa.
3.1.1 The Ethiopian Heritage Trust
![]() |
Further Information |
Article 3 regarding the aim of the Ethiopia Heritage Trust claims: "The Trust is to act as a body of sites and buildings of historical and/or aesthetic interest and of lands of natural beauty to be preserved for present and future generations" (Statues of The Ethiopia Heritage Trust, pg 1)
a) The Governing Council
Ethiopian Heritage Trust (EHT) is ruled by a governing Council, consisting of 14 councillors, elected by the members of the EHT. Among its duties is to perform all acts necessary for the EHT, such as acquiring aesthetically and historically interesting sites and buildings and the land of natural beauty, repairing, restoring and conserving such sites, buildings and land to the highest standard, and improving awareness regarding issues of conservation and preservation in Ethiopia.b) The Park Committee
From the Governing Council, a number of committees have emerged. One of them is the Park Committee, which has the determination to create a natural park of high quality for the citizens of Addis Ababa on the slopes of Entoto mountain. Most of the Park Committee members have full employment elsewhere, a fact that so far has steered the meetings of the Committee towards evening time. During our stay, the Park Committee had regular meetings every second week, often with an additional four hours-walk on Entoto on Sundays. At every meeting, often held in the home of one of the Park Committee members, a list of minutes is taken in order to clarify the duties to be carried out until the next meeting and to check up on the results since the previous meeting. Decisions can not be taken until the members of the Park Committee unanimously agreed upon them.![]() |
Acknowledgements |
In the National Conservation
Strategy, it is expressed that:
- Heritage significance indicates historical, aesthetic, social, scientific or other values for past, present and future generations,
- Heritage is living and is not a museum of protected objectives but part of people's lives,
- Heritage is a continuum of cultural expression from natural wilderness to urban areas,
- Heritage conservation should be seen as part of and integrated with Ethiopia's generally social and economic development,
- The national heritage should not be seen as the responsibility of the government alone, and so communities should play a leading role in assessing and nominating places or items of heritage significance and in conserving them,
- A sustainable heritage conservation and management programme should seek to understand all the elements of the system, their interrelationships and the way in which each contributes to social and economic development. (Ibid, pg 97)
(HΓ₯kan Blanck and Pia Englund, Entoto Natural Park 1995)
The organization, Ethiopian Heritage Trust, is devoted to the restoration of Ethiopia's indigenous Nature and also the sincere work preserving the country's precious heritage in culture. With high priority, the Ethiopian Heritage Trust laid the ground for understanding the importance of an indigenous forest's effect on the country's natural health. The organization's work with planting native saplings illuminates the landscape's healing capacity with precision thanks to this native forest. The importance of careful research regarding knowledge in natural science gives an intense and evident example before any foreign species is regarded as possible for an introduction into an unfamiliar and vulnerable habitat.
![]() |
The Eucalyptus Problem |
Ethiopian Heritage Trust
Environmental Restoration
Volunteering
Terracing
Check Dams
Water Reservoirs
Spring Water Ideas
Retaining Walls
Benefits of the Park's Work
Ethiopia's Unique Highland Landscape and Climate
The Complications Of Indigenous Forest Restoration
The Precarious and Fragile Restoration Of the Lost Nature
![]() |
Water and Land Restoration |
πππ‘ππ πΆππππ‘πππ π€ππ‘β πΊππππ π΅πππ’π‘π¦
Videos: Planting Technology
Videos: Water and Land Restoration
π¨ππ πΊπππ: π³πππ πππππ & πΎπππ ππππ
πͺπΆπ΅π«π°π»π°πΆπ΅πΊ πΆπ πΊπ¨π³π¬
50% ππ π‘βπ πππππ ππ π‘βππ ππππ‘π’ππ π€πππ ππ π‘π π‘βπ πΈπ‘βππππππ π»ππππ‘πππ πππ’π π‘ (ππΎ).
πΌπ π¦ππ’ πππ πππ‘ππππ π‘ππ ππ ππ’π¦πππ πππ¦ ππ π‘βππ π π€ππππ ππ π€ππ’ππ ππππ ππππ ππππππππ‘πππ, πππππ π πππππ ππ πβπππ π’π .
π ππ‘π’πππ π€πππ ππ ππππππ‘ππ π€ππ‘βππ’π‘ ππ’ππ π‘πππ π€ππ‘βππ π‘π€π π€ππππ , π€ππ‘β π ππ’ππ ππππ’ππ ππ π‘βπ ππ’ππβππ π πππππ.
π΄ππ πππππ‘ππππ πππ ππππ€ππππ πππ πππ π πππ πππ’ππ‘ππ (ππ₯ππππ‘ π€βπππ ππ‘ π ππ¦π ππ‘βπππ€ππ π).
πππ’ππ‘π πππ πππππ’πππ ππ π‘βπ ππ’ππβππ π πππππ.
ππ£ππ 450 πππππ‘π , ππππ π‘βππ 30 πππππππ πππ 16 πππππ πππ π’ππππ’π π‘π πΈπ‘βπππππ.
π΄ππ πππππ πππ πππ’ππ ππ π‘βπ πππππ‘πππ πππ ππππ π‘βππ π ππππππππ .
πΎπππ
ππππ:
ππ£ππ 450 πππππ‘π , ππππ π‘βππ 30 πππππππ πππ 16 πππππ πππ π’ππππ’π π‘π πΈπ‘βπππππ.
Ethiopian Heritage Trust
The goal is to cover the Park with indigenous trees and bring back the native flowers and shrubs, birds and mammals which used to abound in the area.
Over 600,000 indigenous trees have been planted.
To control water flow and prevent erosion 200 kilometres of terracing and 15 kilometres of check dams have been built.
As a result, 13 springs have developed.
115 species of bird have been recorded, including 5 of Ethiopia’s endemic species.
With the growing maturity of the trees native shrubs and herbaceous plants can be seen, such as bulleia polystachya, bidens pachyloma, and geranium arabicum.
The number of indigenous tree seedlings planted in the Park over the last 3 years has been:
2018 8,000
2019 25,000
2020 9,400
(Covid 19 caused considerable problems for the tree planting operation in 2020.)
This momentum has to be maintained to complete the long-term vision of a green haven; at least a further 10 years of effort will be required.
Website: Contact Us
Comments
Post a Comment