Our Mission
Strengthen biodiversity study in Somaliland
Develop resources, offer workshops, encourage engagement.
Somaliland is a “global biodiversity hotspot.”
This means it has an unusually high number of species, many known only from Somaliland. The slide show features posters of some of the species found there. To download them, go here.
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THE FOUNDATION
The Foundation was established in 2016 to help create, within Somaliland, opportunities for developing knowledge of the country’s biodiversity and its sustainable management. At that time, most knowledge about the country’s biodiversity came from foreigners, primarily because there was not, and never had been, an opportunity to gain the education needed in Somaliland. The Foundation is working to change that situation.
News & Updates
December 2025
Mustafe Abdulkadir, instructor for Entomology at the University of Hargeisa, asked asked Hadia Ahmed, who had assisted at several workshops, to show students how to collect, sort, and document insect collections.
November 2025
"The History Tree: a symbol of regional instability" an article by Faisal Jama Gelle, Helen Pickering, and Ahmed I Awale, was published by in the Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society.
July 2025
"Glover - linking scientific and local knowledge", an expanded and updated version of Glover's 1947 checklist was published on this web site by Helen Pickering (look under "For you"). It can be downloaded for free.
