Ahmed Ibrahim Awale
Ahmed Ibrahim Awale (Axmed Ibraahim Cawaale) is a Somalian environmentalist, and also an author. He is an environmentalist with more than several decades of experience. He is the chairman of the Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation, as well as Candlelight for Environment, Education, and Health.
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Ahmed Ibrahim Awale
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- 1954 · Adadlay.
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- Somaliland · Somalia
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- botanist · environmentalist · writer
- Education
- Somali National University
- Languages
- Somali · English
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He also lectures on environmental science at the University of Hargeysa and is the author of several books, including Environment in Crisis: Selected Essays on the Somali environment. Awale was born in the village of Adadlay, 95 km east of Hargeisa, and lived close to the mountain Gaan Libah. He was educated at the Somali National University. He is president of the Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation and chair of the Somaliland organisation "Candlelight", which works in the fields of the environment, education and health. He is affiliated with the University of Hargeisa, and has written books in English on the archaeology and natural history of Somaliland, as well as works in Somali. He is also known for his discovery of a new species of Aloe, Aloe sanguinalis, which he found growing wild near Alala Adka (Alaala Cadka) in 2014. The botanical author abbreviation Awale refers to him. In 2020, a species of scorpion, Pandinurus awalei, was named in his honour. He is also instrumental in the discovery and description of a new aloe species, Aloe kaysei, in Somaliland in March 2024.
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- 1.The Somali man who has a scorpion named after him. BBC News. 4 November 2020.
- 2.African Books Collective: Ahmed Ibrahim Awale. www.africanbookscollective.com.
- 3.Somaliland Biodiversity Foundation. About.
- 4.New aloe species found by Candlelight Chairman (Ahmed Ibrahim Awale). Candlelight for Environment Education & Health. 25 February 2019.
- 5.Král, David. Pachnoda iskuulka (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), a new species from Somaliland, including a description of its mature larva. Zootaxa. 4604. 3. 482–496. 15 May 2019. 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.3.5.
- 6.Barkworth, Mary E. Dacar Cas/Somali Red Aloe: a new species of Aloe (Asphodelaceae) from Somaliland. PhytoKeys. 117. 85–97. 7 February 2019. 10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.117.28226.
- 7.IPNI. Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim. International Plant Names Index.
- 8.Awale, Ahmed Ibrahim. A new species of Aloe (Asphodelaceae) from Acacia 'woodlands of hardships' in Adadley district, Somaliland. CactusWorld. 42. 12–17. 14 March 2024.
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