Towards the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) and a KBA System for Somaliland. Candlelight, in collaboration with the Somaliland Ministry of #Environment and Climate Change, organized a three-day workshop on Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The purpose of...
By Doris de Luna Hon. Shukri Haji Ismail Mohamoud, Somaliland’s minister of environment and rural development, still remembers that day in 2013 when she asked her staff. “Why are people taking cheetahs? And they said, because they are selling. Selling!...
  Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails   It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first.Now here is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised...