Hundreds of hikers walking through Lebanon for the conservation of birds

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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Hundreds of hikers walking through Lebanon for the conservation of birds

Wearing boots and armed with only the country's new hunting regulations, 150 hikers are trekking through Lebanon for bird conservation

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BirdLife mourns the passing of Mindy Baha El Din

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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BirdLife mourns the passing of Mindy Baha El Din

It was with great sadness that BirdLife has learnt of the recent death of Mindy Baha El Din, a vocal campaigner and pioneer of conservation in Egypt.

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New agreements for bird sensitive energy development in Egypt!

Monday, March 11, 2013

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New agreements for bird sensitive energy development in Egypt!

The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), the Migratory Soaring Birds project’s national partner in Egypt, and the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) crystallising their collaboration for bird sensitive energy development in Egypt

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Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming Migratory Soaring Birds’ Considerations in the Energy Sector

Saturday, December 15, 2012

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Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming Migratory Soaring Birds’ Considerations in the Energy Sector

The workshop will bring together leading experts from both the energy and nature conservation sectors to tackle bird mortality in energy infrastructure in the Middle East Region

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On the road to a common ground for Ethiopia’s energy plans and conservation of migratory soaring birds

Monday, November 19, 2012

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On the road to a common ground for Ethiopia’s energy plans and conservation of migratory soaring birds

Stakeholders in an energy workshop discuss the common need to promote renewable energy while ensuring that considerations of the risks to migratory soaring birds are made during the planning and operational processes of wind, solar and transmission lines developments.

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Migratory Soaring Birds Project makes an important step towards implementation of a new hunting law in Lebanon

Friday, October 19, 2012

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Migratory Soaring Birds Project makes an important step towards implementation of a new hunting law in Lebanon

Successful final MSB workshop in Lebanon trained security forces in bird identification and hunting-law enforcement

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PARTICIPANTS GO WILD in workshop on communication for conserving migrating birds!!!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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PARTICIPANTS GO WILD in workshop on communication for conserving migrating birds!!!

om the 2nd to the 5th of July 2012, the Migratory Soaring Birds project held a regional communication workshop that gathered more than 30 people, project partners and observers, from more than 10 countries.

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World Migratory Bird Day celebration plans in the Rift Valley/Red Sea flyway

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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The BirdLife International UNDP/GEF Migratory Soaring Birds project will celebrate orld Migratory Bird Day in six countries along the Rift Valley/Red Sea flyway!

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Experts reach agreement on mainstreaming migratory soaring birds conservation into the hunting sector in the Rift Valley/Red Sea region

Monday, October 24, 2011

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A Regional Declaration on hunting, guidelines for mainstreaming MSBs considerations into the hunting sector and a five year Regional Action Plan were agreed at the meeting.

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Migratory soaring birds and the hunting sector meeting

Saturday, October 15, 2011

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Experts from around the Middle East, Europe and Africa will gather in Beirut to work on plans to conserve the Rift Valley/Red Sea migratory soaring birds flyway.

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