Safe flyway in Egypt: How did mortality rate of migrating birds over wind power farms decline to 1% ? – Egypt Today

Safe flyway in Egypt: How did mortality rate of migrating birds over wind power farms decline to 1% ? – Egypt Today

CAIRO - 10 October 2022: The mortality rate of the migratory birds monitored during their fly over Egypt’s wind power farms declined to 1 percent from 30 percent, said Egyptian Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad.

This was driven by the measures adopted by the Ministry of Evironment and the state-owned renewable energy authority to protect migratory birds in Egypt, where about 2 million birds fly over the country in their migration journeys to warmer destinations, especially in the fall and the winter.

"No country across the world could reach zero mortality of birds in the presence of wind power stations,” the minister said in comments to Egypt Today on the sidelines of a regional conference on “Safe Flyways: Conference on Energy and Birds,” on Saturday, which also marks the World Day of Migratory Birds.

Without the ministry's protection measures, the rate of bird mortality could have reached 30 percent along the Red Sea due to the presence of wind power farms, according to the minister.

“Egypt was awarded the first African prize 3 years ago for protecting the flyways from Upper Egypt’s Aswan to the Red Sea,” said the minister.

On a similar note, Osama el-Gebaly, the head of the Migartory Soaring Birds project at