| environmental effects of heavy spillage from a destroyed pesticide store near hargeisa (somaliland) assessed during the dry season, using reptiles and amphibians as bioindicators. | a pesticide store near hargeisa (somaliland) was damaged by bombing in may 1988, and subsequently looted by local people, who removed and drained drums of chemicals. assessment of the effects of resultant spillage during the dry season, march/april 1993, established that pesticides, mainly organochlorines (dieldrin and products and bhc isomers)and organophosphates (fenitrothion and malathion) had contaminated 3700 sq mof soil at up to 3728.0 (geometric mean 149.0) ppm (5180.0 g/m3)total insectic ... | 1997 | 9002438 |