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Lowland Forest Resources and Their Conservation in Southern Somalia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert J. Douthwaite
Robert J. Douthwaite
Affiliation:
4 Hastings Close, Highlands, Harare (formerly Salisbury), Zimbabwe; Tropical Development and Research Institute, College House, Wrights Lane, London WB 5SJ, England, UK; Formerly Environmental Biologist, National Tsetse & Trypanosomiasis Control Project, Muqdisho (Mogadishu), Somalia.
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Lowland forest in southern Somalia is restricted to the Holawajir depression and banks of the Jubba and Shabeelle Rivers. Riverine forest probably covers less than 3,000 ha and is undergoing rapid clearance for farming, so that it seems unlikely to survive this century. Further biological survey is required but the flora, and bird and mammal faunas, appear to be impoverished compared with those on the lower Tana River in Kenya.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 29 - 35
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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