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Wildlife
trade in Somalia 2006 (PDF - 2
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Introduction: Somali wildlife has never been well protected, and
important habitats harbouring Somalia’s biodiversity have been
overexploited since the arrival of pastoralists at the Horn of
Africa. On the other hand, the need for bush meat has always been
low because 70% of Somali pastoral communities rely on domestic
animals to satisfy their protein demand. Therefore, subsistence
hunting occurred mainly during environmental disasters such as
prolonged drought periods. Nonetheless, in northern and central
Somalia, most big game such as elephant, giraffe and rhino became
already extinct before World War II, owing to habitat alteration
and overexploitation....
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