Fatima Jibrell (Somali: Fadumo Jibriil, Arabic: فاطمة جبريل; born December 30, 1947) is a Somali-American environmental activist.
As a child in Somalia, she attended a British boarding school until the age of 16, when she left the country to join her father in the United States.
[10] Through Horn Relief, Jibrell mounted a successful campaign to salvage old-growth forests of acacia trees in the northeastern part of Somalia.
[1] These trees, which can grow up to 500 years old, were being cut down to make charcoal since this so-called "black gold" is highly in demand in the Arabian Peninsula, where the region's Bedouin tribes believe the acacia to be sacred.
[11] As a way of addressing this problem, Jibrell and Horn Relief trained a group of adolescents to educate the public on the permanent damage that producing charcoal can create.
In 1999, Horn Relief coordinated a peace march in the northeastern Puntland region of Somalia to put an end to the so-called "charcoal wars."