Lag Badana Wildlife Reserve

Lag Badana Wildlife Reserve is listed (spelled "lack Badana") among the nine wildlife reserves of Somalia in the UN List of Protected Areas, which records it as designated but gives no year of designation, no area and no IUCN category.^[1] The World Database on Protected Areas gives the reserve a reference point at about 0.87° S, 41.88° E.^[2] A Lack Badana Wildlife Reserve is listed separately from Lag Badana National Park.^[3] Lag Badana National Park, also called Bushbush National Park, is a different protected area of 3,340 km2 on the far southern coast of Lower Juba, next to the border with Kenya.^[4]

The UN List of Protected Areas records no year of designation for the wildlife reserve.^[1] Eleven wildlife areas have been declared in Somalia since the 1970s, but only two were thought to be functional, and no formal protection has been offered to any of them since the early 1990s.^[5]

Nature Somalia states that no protected areas remained functional after the 1991 collapse of the central government.^[6]