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Somalia's threatened forests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Jane Madgwick
Jane Madgwick
Affiliation:
Somalia Research Project, ℅ Ecology and Conservation Unit, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Abstract

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In 1986 the FFPS contributed £750 from its Oryx 100% Fund towards a study of riparian forest in Somalia. Only small fragments remain. The local and national importance of these forests demands that urgent action is taken to conserve them, as the author explains.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 94 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1989

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