Fisher+HEI

Farming/Livestock  Back to home page   55% of Somali depend on livestock for income. Somalia has an agricultural surplus of $10.2 million. Even though Somalia does't have a lot of fertile land to grow things 3/5 of the economy is based off of farming. It is kind of weird because the main economic activity isn't farming but it is livestock raising. Somalia is the world's leading producer in frankincense. Agriculture in Somalia can be divided into three sectors. The first on is nomadic pastoralism, the second one is traditional chiefly subsistence done usually done by small farmers, and the last one is market-oriented farming. It happens on a medium to large scale. Poaching   Poaching is a big problem in Somalia. Poaching is the greatest threat to tigers, rhinos, elephants , gorillas, and other species in Somalia. Most of the reason why people poach is because it makes you a quick buck. 1 rhino horn is 100 times more than what your neighbor is probably making. Most of it gets sent to China because they pay lots for ivory and other things you can get from poaching. It is so bad that in the 1970's and the 1980's poachers and drought killed 80% of the elephants in Tsavo. They did recover. Poaching has gotten so out of hand in Somalia. Deforestation  In Somalia many people cut down trees. Some for different reasons. They cut down trees to make charcoal, to make money, to build houses, to clear it for farmland, and probably for lots of other different reasons. People have been doing it so rapidly that 20% of the forest was gone in 10 years. People have chopped down all of the mature trees so now to get charcoal they don't have any mature trees left so that means they need to chop down a lot more tiny trees. A lot of people have to chop down trees because making charcoal and selling it is one of the few jobs in Somalia. media type="custom" key="25151188"