Guest blog* by Amr Hady *in English and Arabic In October 2023 a surprise, one must say, decision was issued by the Egyptian authorities to ban bird hunting in Lake Nasser. From a bird conservation point of...
Guest blog by Haitham Mossad For the second successive year Nature Conservation Egypt (NCE) has organized a full spring raptor migration count on top of the Galala Plateau on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The NCE...
Guest blog by Basma Sheta I am really pleased to write this account of a training programme in the basic techniques of bird monitoring that was undertaken at Lake Manzala, Egypt in autumn 2022 and funded by...
Birds go on – birdwatchers on hold A message from Tomas Axén Haraldsson The current situation with the spread of the corona virus, and not least the consequences of all the emergency measures, has caused countries and...
Guest blog by Basma Sheta I am Basma Sheta, from Damietta on the north coast of Egypt. I have a PhD in Zoology, specializing in bird ecology. The study of birds was one of the most beautiful...
OSME is pleased to learn that progress is being made on developing an approach to sustainable hunting in the Middle East. A full report is available at http://www.birdlife.org/middle-east/news . . . Hunters from Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Egypt,...
Ecological changes in the Nile Delta wetlands over the past several decades have led to dramatic changes in the local breeding avifauna. With reduced salinity, and increased abundance of reeds and the establishment of a vast matrix...
Birding Egypt on Facebook Birding Egypt have opened a new forum on Facebook for all those interested in birds, birdwatching and bird conservation in Egypt. (Source: Mindy Baha El Din) Lake Qarun under threat Nature Conservation Egypt...