Sherif Baha El Din
Sherif Baha El Din (born December 7, 1960 in Ras Ghalib , Egypt ) is an Egyptian herpetologist, ornithologist and conservationist.
Life
Baha El Din grew up in Ras Ghalib, a seaside resort on the Red Sea north of Hurghada . In 1967 the family moved to Cairo . From 1975 he attended the art school of Helwan University , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in design in 1982 . In 1981, as an ornithologist, he investigated the extent of a large oil spill on the avifauna in the Red Sea. He worked with a group of scientists who surveyed the entire coastline from Suez to Ras Banas . During the month-long field work, an entire truck was filled with dry bird carcasses. In the 1980s, Baha El Din was committed to establishing new protected areas. He became a scientific advisor for the Zaranik region, which was registered as the second national park in Egypt in 1985. The Zaranik Conservation Area in the north of the Sinai Peninsula includes Lake Bardawil , which offers a wide variety of unique aquatic and terrestrial habitats and is an important gathering place for migratory birds. In 1987 he began studying urban and regional planning at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg (Virginia) , which he completed in 1989 as a master's . In the same year he married the American herpetologist Mindy Rosenzweig, who died in 2013. From this marriage two daughters were born. From 1992 Sherif and Mindy Baha El Din worked as consultants in wildlife management and in the ecotourism industry. 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 launched the Tortoise Care Egypt project, with the aim of establishing a breeding program for the Egyptian tortoise ( Testudo kleinmanni ), which is considered extinct in Egypt. After a four-year ecological study doctorate Baha El Din 2001 with the thesis The herpetofauna of Egypt: species, communities and assemblages at the University of Nottingham for Ph.D. From 2008 to 2009 he led a pilot project for the protection of biodiversity for the company Royal Dutch Shell . Since 2010 he has been working as an environmental advisor for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Since 2011 he has been a senior technical advisor at BirdLife International . Six years earlier he founded Nature Conservation Egypt , the Egyptian partner organization of BirdLife International. He is also a field worker at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Baha El Din published Common Birds of Egypt (1994), Directory of Important Bird Areas in Egypt (1999), and A Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Egypt (2006). In addition, he wrote the first scientific descriptions of Amietophrynus kassasii (1993), Tarentola mindiae (1997), Hemidactylus mindiae (2005) and Acanthodactylus aegyptius (2007).
Dedication names
In 2002 the lizard species Mesalina bahaeldini was named in honor of Sherif Baha El Din.
literature
- Louise Sarant: Sherif Baha el-Din: 30 years of dedication to nature (English) . In: Egypt Independent , Al-Masry Al-Youm. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2011, ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 , p. 14
Web links
- LinkedIn profile
- Curriculum Vitae Sherif Baha El Din (Word document, English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baha El Din, Sherif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian herpetologist, ornithologist and conservationist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ras Ghalib , Egypt |