The seaport is one of three main sites in Mogadishu protected by the AMISOM forces.
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The airport would also disrupt the environment off the Hoo peninsula, which included protectedsites that were used by hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, he added.
Infratil was required to undertake the environmental impact assessments in case there was a potential effect on legally protected wildlife sites in the vicinity.
Deep in the South Indian Ocean , these two protected World Heritage sites, a mere 1, 010 sea miles north of Antarctica, are rarely visited, and not at all for the past decade.