How prevalent was poaching in Somalia?

[BebsiBolice]

First time I went to Somalia I actually saw Giraffes, Elephants and other beautiful animals they were caged tho. From what I've been told Somalis were killing beautiful animals like the elephant and cheetahs and now we hardly have a wild life.

Picture from Somalia 70s

Somali man playing with two cheetahs.

Giraffes in Somalia, I think this pic is recent.

 

[kernel]

The lack of a diverse fauna has more to do with pastoralism than poaching. My awoowe told me in badiye they used to have a lot of carnivorous animals around back in the day but they had to chase them away because they would keep fucking with our xoolo. Many of these animals are now in Kenya or Ethiopia. He was also telling me animals like elephants and other herbivores would migrate during the abaar (dry) season and many of them never came back because Kenyans would steal them and put them in their parks. Either way reer badiye people are really happy with the situation right now because their xoolo don't have to worry about competing over grazing food/plants with other animals cuz there isn't many.


I think if you go really South you'll see a lot of different animals because they have more green/grassy areas that animals could have a decent habitat to live in.

 

[Inactive]

The last pic is somewhere in the South of Africa. That's not Somalia

 

[Hemaal]

When/where did you see giraffes in Somalia?

Why you lying? They long gone
You prolly saw ostriches and thought it was giraffes.

 

[Land of Punt]

lol, "First time I went to Somalia I actually saw Giraffes" , i stopped reading after that..

 

[Cognitivedissonance]

Poaching maxa ah they fled when the first bullets where fired in 91. I hear bare bahals are still fleeing, the other day I heard 3 ostriches, 2 elephants & a zebra were caught tahriibing on a boat in the coast of Aden fleeing Somali, war the people are fleeing animalska markas inta joogan.

 

[Al Dhoobe]

While poaching did exist, Somalis like to blame others for everything. We ate all the wild animals during the civil war, that's where they went.

 

[Apollo]

The last pic is somewhere in the South of Africa. That's not Somalia

It's the Somali Giraffe subspecies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulated_giraffe

 

[Night]

It's the Somali Giraffe subspecies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulated_giraffe

but look where that subspecies lives now

 

[Apollo]

but look where that subspecies lives now

That map looks like bullshit to me. How can Giraffes know exact political borders? That subspecies originated in Somalia so surely there are some still living in Somalia, especially the Jubba region.

 

[Night]

Map looks like bullshit to me, how can Giraffes know political borders. That subspecies originated in Somalia so surely there are some still living in Somalia, especially the Jubba region.

i agree, there are some that enter juba sometimes, but for the most part the Giraffes in somalia have been wiped out, the very few last ones have been hacked to death by terriost groups and locals

 

[Apollo]

Unlikely, Somalia is a big country with a low population density. Aint nobody got time to hunt down every single one of them.

 

[Hemaal]

i agree, there are some that enter juba sometimes, but for the most part the Giraffes in somalia have been wiped out, the very few last ones have been hacked to death by terriost groups and locals

There are few cases like the one which the Elephant named Morgan travelled all the way from Kenya to Somalia but the truth is that Somalia's only wildlife that's left is the antelopes

 

[Night]

Unlikely, Somalia is a big country with a low population density. Aint nobody got time to hunt down every single one of them.

you sure..

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...c-State-ISIS-Abdullah-Azzam-Mogadishu-Somalia

 

[Apollo]

These animals just follow greenery. You cannot eradicate them. Kenya has many and thus they will keep pouring into Somalia. There is no barrier between Kenya and Somalia.

 

[BebsiBolice]

When/where did you see giraffes in Somalia?

Why you lying? They long gone
You prolly saw ostriches and thought it was giraffes.

I saw them in cages. CAGES. I was around 6 years old. Long time ago. My uncle wanted me to see something nice in war torn Somalia.

 

[Hemaal]

Unlikely, Somalia is a big country with a low population density. Aint nobody got time to hunt down every single one of them.

It's not even about hunting, We Somalis didn't even like to hunt wildlife, it was seen something a person of a low class (wealth wise) would do! Why hunt when there's plenty of camel meat available.

 

[BebsiBolice]

i agree, there are some that enter juba sometimes, but for the most part the Giraffes in somalia have been wiped out, the very few last ones have been hacked to death by terriost groups and locals

why the f*ck did they kill them?

 

[BebsiBolice]

The last pic is somewhere in the South of Africa. That's not Somalia

It's the Somali giraffe. Their natural habitat is in Somalia.

 

[Inactive]

Well that giraffe is in some national park in South Africa now.