Mogadishu 21 December, 2009 :: The National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) would like to highlight in this report the current situation of Somalia environment in general particularly the cuting down the important Somali trees and the illegal hunting of Somali wildlife.

Almost, two decades Somalia has not had a central government and Somalis are under violent behaviour since the collabse of Siad Barre regime in 1991. Therefore Somalian bussiness community has charactarized to create bad and lawful bussiness so as to eliminate the natural resources of Somalia such as the cuting down of acacia trees in across the country in order to make charcoal since this so-called "black gold" has a highly demand in the Arabian Peninsula, where the region's Bedouin tribes believe the acacia to be sacred.

Mostly, south and central Somalia are the victim regions while Puntland and Somaliland is very rare  over the last three years although Somalis are very tricky society who are not keen on to fullfil the law and order because they were experienced corruption and using ethinic links particularly for those who are in the adminstration regionaly or nationaly in order to continue their lawful work and escape all government rules which can be obstacle for their commerce.

However, while being a relatively inexpensive fuel that meets a user's needs, the production of charcoal oftentimes leads to the deforestation and  desertification as well as social erotion.

Apart from that, Somalis are also sffering  From late 2008 up to the present time foreign helicopters patroling warships in Somali waters have been poaching and stealing wildlife from the coastal villages in North Eastern, Somalia” Farah Ahmed an elder in Eyl district told Islamonline.net, IOL.

One of NASSEJ members who is a freelance journalist and contributor of Islamoneline.net was interviewed some Elders and nomadic families of the coastal villages in Puntland, a self-declared state in northeastern Somalia, are suffering from foreign helicopters that are hunting and stealing wildlife on the outskirts of the villages in coastal areas. The most targeted areas by the flying poachers are Nugal, Karkar and Mudug regions. And all these activities are at the following link.

 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1256909734914&pagename=Zone-English-Youth/YTELayout

Anyhow, all these environmental problems are illegal because Somalia has not had a powerful government and the ongoing violence in the country can cause Somalia to be where there is no environmental rights at all.

However, the National Association of Somali Science and Environmental Journalists (NASSEJ) is fighting to protect Somalia environment and NASSEJ vision is Somalia to be a leading of international standard protected environment that is protected by its people and NASSEJ members believe that without a stable strong government in place something little can be achieved about the environment.

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