Mindy Baha El Din

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Mindy Baha El Din (born Rosenzweig ; born November 1, 1958 in Chicago , Illinois ; † March 18, 2013 in Giza , Egypt ) was an Egyptian herpetologist , eco-activist and environmentalist of American origin. Together with her husband, the Egyptian herpetologist and ornithologist Sherif Baha El Din (* 1960), she made remarkable contributions to the protection of migratory birds in Egypt.

Life

After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Arabic and Economics , Mindy Rosenzweig attended courses in field ornithology and devoted himself to bird watching . As an employee of BirdLife International , she traveled to Egypt in 1988 and founded an environmental education center at Giza Zoo. In 1989 she married Sherif Baha El Din. From this marriage two daughters were born. From 1992 the couple worked together as freelance wildlife management consultants . They organized and led bird watching excursions across Egypt, published educational materials, ran campaigns to protect migratory birds and studied migratory bird routes. Mindy and Sherif Baha El Din were consultants in the conservation sector for the Egyptian Environment Agency. In 1994 they founded Tortoise Care Egypt , a group of international and local organizations and individuals with the aim of establishing a breeding program for the Egyptian tortoise ( Testudo kleinmanni ), which is considered extinct in Egypt. In 2005 they were among the co-founders of Nature Conservation Egypt , the Egyptian partner organization of BirdLife International.

Mindy Baha El Din suffered a stroke on March 14, 2013, from the consequences of which she died in a hospital in Giza in the early morning hours of March 18, 2013.

In 1997 and 2005 , Sherif Baha El Din described the two gecko species Tarentola mindiae and Hemidactylus mindiae and named them after his wife.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kraig Adler (Ed.): Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Volume 3, Contributions to Herpetology Volume 29, Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles , 2012. ISBN 978-0-916984-82-3 . P. 392
  2. ^ BirdLife International : BirdLife mourns the passing of Mindy Baha El Din March 20, 2013
  3. ^ Tortoise Trust
  4. ^ Sherif and Mindy Baha El Din . In: Scientific American Frontiers . 2001.
  5. ↑ Louise Sarant: Egypt's environment loose one of its most ardent supporters: Mindy Baha El Din In: Egypt Independent , March 18, 2013.
  6. ^ Baha El Din, SM 1997. A new species of Tarentola (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Desert of Egypt. Afr. J. Herpetol., 46 (1): 30-35
  7. ↑ Baha El Din, Sherif M. 2005. An overview of Egyptian species of Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from the high mountains of South Sinai. Zoology in the Middle East 34: 11-26
personal data
SURNAME Baha El Din, Mindy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenzweig, Mindy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian herpetologist, eco-activist and environmentalist of American origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2013
Place of death Giza , Egypt