Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad stressed that protecting migratory birds and biodiversity is one of the global and regional environmental challenges that Egypt is keen to address during the UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27).
She stressed that this is one of the issues that reflect the extent of interdependence in achieving balance between environmental conventions.
Fouad also pointed out that what will be discussed during the day on biological diversity at the conference will include the effects of climate change on biodiversity and methods of protecting it at the international level, especially in light of the preperations to ratify a roadmap after the COP15 Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in December.
This came during her speech at the opening of the regional conference organised by Birdlife International in cooperation with the Migratory Soaring Birds Project of the Ministry of Environment under the title ‘Safe Flyways: Conference on Energy and Birds’ from 8 to 10 October.
The conference aims to document relations and mutual understanding between the energy sector and nature conservation organisations along the African-Eurasian migration path in order to strengthen the relationship, understanding, and partnership between nature conservation, especially birds and energy infrastructure along the migration path.
Fouad added that the climate conference is an implementation conference and will tackle environmental measures inside and outside the conference, where Sharm El-Sheikh will become an example of environmentally friendly and sustainable cities, and the green zone embodies the relationship between biological diversity and climate change.
She further stressed that Egypt deals with the issue of protecting migratory birds on the official levels and includes all partners from civil and local society, tourism companies, and youths.
Moreover, the minister reviewed the Egyptian experience in protecting migratory soaring birds in one of the most important paths of their migration in Egypt, which was represented in a number of axes, namely training and building national cadres, as well as preparing and building an integrated system for waste to protect birds in their paths, and adopting and taking all measures to protect birds from hunting.
