Our Team

Our team consists of a truly dedicated grouping of people that have started the unlikely enterprise of outfitting birders in Somaliland where no such activity was ever known.

Abdi Jama,
Manager and guide

Abdi Jama is a native of Hargeisa, Somaliland. He’s world traveller, wild life film maker and a USA citizen with MBA in finance from Colorado State University, Ft Collins.

Abdi got the birding bug while filming wild life for National Geographic in Botswana and has been insane about all things bird and bird-related ever since.

Abdi is the managing director of Nature Somaliland and the go-to guy in all matters affecting the success of our trips from booking tours to erecting camps, food quality, transportation, time management and so on. His exposure to the Botswana wildlife safari business has served him well indeed.

Chef Zeynab & Ifrah,
Assistant

A native of the Reserve Area bush country of present day Ethiopia, Zeynab has migrated to city-life in Burao and Hargeisa and later Mgadiscio.

Zeynab now has a small thriving open air restaurant in Hargeisa where she makes Basmati Rice and spaghetti dishes, fresh Somali chapatti, killer Samusa and a variety ofdelicious confectionaries.

She is a pit bull around supplies and is tireless in managing the kitchen and putting the day’s meals out on time especially those very early morning breakfast times. Her helper, Ifrah, a native of Daallo Forest Reserve, is hard working and pleasant.

We are very glad to have them.

Drivers

Ahmed, Hassan and Abdrazak are a great asset for us in their driving skills, cheerful disposition, knowledge of the back country and well-maintained vehicles.

Escort Police

We travel with armed tourism police escort at all times for security especially in the remoter wild bush sites of interest to birders.