Amir Khalil

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Amir Khalil (born November 21, 1964 in al-Fayyūm ) is an Egyptian veterinarian and project manager at the international animal welfare organization Four Paws .

Youth and education

Khalil was born on November 21, 1964 in al-Fayyūm, the son of a pharmacist and a housewife. He has lived in Vienna since 1989 and is the father of three daughters. Khalil speaks a total of six languages, including Coptic . After studying veterinary medicine at Cairo University , Khalil received a scholarship to study wildlife ecology in Pretoria , South Africa . At the age of 25, he received a scholarship at the University of Edinburgh , but decided to work with the animal welfare organization Four Paws .

Act

In 1994, Amir Khalil started volunteering for Four Paws to reduce the stray population in Romania . In 1997 he became a project manager and head of the Disaster Relief Unit. In 2014 he carried out four rescue missions in the Gaza Strip and evacuated the Al Bisan Zoo and Khan Younis Zoo in 2016 and the Rafah Zoo in 2019.

In April 2017, he evacuated the last two surviving bears and lions from the Montazah Al Morour Zoo in Mosul , Iraq . In July 2017, he rescued 13 animals from the abandoned Magic World amusement park near Aleppo , Syria . Amir Khalil also provided assistance to animals in the Libyan Tripoli Zoo in 2011 , in Cairo during the Arab Spring (2011) and in the Iraqi Baghdad Zoo in 2003.

Amir Khalil has set up animal shelters in Bulgaria , Jordan , Myanmar , South Africa and the Ukraine and led the rescue of 27 dancing bears in the Balkan Peninsula . In 2001 he founded the Belitsa dancing bear park with the support of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation . In 2006 he founded the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem , South Africa. Together with the Princess Alia Foundation, he founded the Al Ma'wa Sanctuary for Nature and Wildlife . In 2018 he founded Elephants Lake, a 17,000 hectare reserve and rehabilitation center for former working elephants in Myanmar's Bago region .

Amir Khalil has provided disaster relief for animals in need in the Balkan floods in 2014, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2013), the flood disaster in Pakistan in 2010 , the hunger crisis in Kenya in 2006 and the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004 . In January 2020, Amir Khalil and Four Paws rescued sick lions from a zoo in Khartoum after the condition of the animals had caused criticism worldwide.

Others

Amir Khalil takes part in Ai Weiwei's documentary Human Flow (2017) and is featured in the non-fiction books Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo (2019) by Louise Callaghan, Paarden viegen business class by Olaf Koens (2019), Dancing Bears : True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szablowski (2014). Amir Khalil's missions have been featured on television programs such as CNN's Great Big Story, Animal Planet, and National Geographic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A zoo is moving - Dr. Khalil rescues animals from crisis areas , August 10, 2019 in Stern.de
  2. ↑ Zoo animals in war zones: When things get tricky even for lions , from August 30, 2019 in Nzz.ch
  3. ↑ The man who risks his life to rescue zoo animals from war zones , December 8, 2017 in Telegraph.co.uk
  4. ↑ In the beginning was a jackdaw , from March 11, 2013 in Wienerzeitung.at
  5. ^ Lion cubs from Gaza now live in Jordan , July 6, 2015 in Faz.net
  6. ↑ FOUR PAWS rescues three lions from the Al-Bisan Zoo , accessed on April 22, 2020 in Silni-lapi.bg
  7. ↑ FOUR PAWS in the "worst zoo in the world" , accessed on April 22, 2020 in Veggieradio.de
  8. ↑ Rafah Zoo in Gaza: Zoo owner plans mutilation of more lions , from March 5, 2019 in Ots.at
  9. ↑ How a veterinarian rescues lions and bears from the war zone , November 8, 2019 in Deutschlandfunkkultur.de
  10. ↑ Happy End: The last animals from a zoo near Aleppo were evacuated , on July 29, 2017 in Ots.at
  11. ^ Vienna team rescues animals in the Tripoli zoo , from September 13, 2011 in Vienna.at
  12. ^ The forgotten animals of the revolution , March 3, 2011 in Kleinezeitung.at
  13. ^ Leiden in Baghdad Zoo , May 9, 2003 in Derstandard.at
  14. ↑ FOUR PAWS ends the dark chapter of keeping dancing bears in the EU , from July 20, 2007 in Ots.at
  15. ↑ Opening of FOUR PAWS lion parks LIONSROCK in South Africa , of 13 February 2008 in Ots.at
  16. ↑ New wildlife protection center Al Ma'wa in Jordan opens doors for rescued animals , from October 4, 2016 in Ots.at
  17. ↑ Myanmar: Animal rights activists build a center for ex-working elephants , May 14, 2018 in Sn.at
  18. ↑ Balkans: The Great Cleansing Up After the Flood , June 6, 2014 in Diepresse.com
  19. ↑ "Four Paws" -Hilfseinsatz in the Philippines , December 3, 2013 Krone.at
  20. ↑ Water for Kenya - FOUR PAWS in emergency aid , from October 13, 2009 in Petfinder.ch
  21. ↑ "Now they look like lions" , accessed on April 22, 2020 in tagesschau.de
  22. ↑ Human Flow , accessed April 22, 2020 at Amazon.co.uk
  23. ^ Father of Lions , accessed April 22, 2020 at Amazon.co.uk
  24. ↑ Paarden viegen business class: Verhalen over mens en dier in het Midden-Oosten , accessed on April 22, 2020 in Books.google.at
  25. ↑ Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny , accessed on April 22, 2020 in Books.google.at
  26. ↑ Rescuing Animals From War Zones , Retrieved April 22, 2020 from Greatbigstory.com
  27. ↑ How Syrian Zoo Animals Escaped a War-Ravaged City , October 5, 2017 in Nationalgeographic.com
personal data
SURNAME Khalil, Amir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian veterinarian and project manager at the international animal welfare organization Vier Pfoten
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH al-Fayyūm