Somalia National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) 2026–2030.

The Somalia National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) 2026–2030 establishes Somalia’s national framework for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, sustainable use of biological resources and equitable benefit-sharing. It responds to pressures including habitat degradation, deforestation and charcoal production, overgrazing, agricultural expansion, unsustainable and illegal fishing, wildlife exploitation, pollution, invasive alien species and climate change. The Strategy covers terrestrial, inland-water, coastal and marine ecosystems and aligns national action with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Strategy establishes five objectives and twenty national biodiversity targets addressing pressures on biodiversity, ecosystem and species protection and restoration, sustainable and equitable use, biodiversity mainstreaming, and implementation capacity. Key 2030 ambitions include placing at least 30% of degraded ecosystems under effective restoration and conserving at least 30% of terrestrial and inland-water areas and 30% of coastal and marine areas, subject to verified national baselines. Measures also address sustainable agriculture, livestock, forestry and fisheries, species recovery, invasive species, pollution, genetic resources and benefit-sharing, climate resilience, biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and stronger community stewardship. Implementation follows a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach led by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, involving federal and State institutions, local authorities, communities, customary institutions, civil society, academia and the private sector. The Strategy provides for phased implementation, biodiversity mainstreaming, environmental and social safeguards, a National Biodiversity Information System, monitoring and periodic review, including a mid-term review in 2028 and final evaluation in 2030.