BirdLife mourns the passing of Mindy Baha El Din

[BirdLife International]

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.

 

 

Mindy Baha El Din, was born in Mindy Rosenzweig in Chicago, Ill. in 1958 and grew up in Indiana. After studying Arabic and Economics at Indiana University, she took classes in field ornithology at Cornell University, NY and became an avid birder. In 1988 she was hired by BirdLife International to set up an environmental education center at the Giza Zoological Garden in Cairo, Egypt. Since 1992, she has been a wildlife management consultant in Egypt, producing educational materials, launching campaigns promoting migratory bird conservation and studying migration through Egypt.

 

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