The businesses of migratory bird hunting in Egypt

by investigative journalist Alya abou Shahba/ Egypt

The report delves into the profitable trade of migratory bird hunting in Egypt, a key route for bird migration. Despite conservation treaties, authorities overlook widespread poaching, resulting in the deaths of millions of birds annually in North Sinai. Climate change intensifies the threat, underscoring the urgency for sustainable hunting practices to safeguard bird populations and ecosystems. For the full article click .

Hunting with Shot Guns at the zarnik Protected Area, Mindy El Bashi, Nature Conservation Egypt

Alyaa Abo Shahba

is an Egyptian journalist with 18 years of experience, receiving awards for her work on biodiversity and climate change. She has provided training courses since 2015 and authored a book called "Death by Stigma" about people living with HIV in Egypt.

Creative team:

Managers: Consuelo Achurra & Ronny Acevedo- Duo "Delirio Colectivo".

“Eye of the desert” an art installation project by Duo Delirio Colectivo

The eye is ‘the voice of the planet’ an omniscient character, of a nightmarish landscape, who will declaim for birds and their lives in the name of threatened species. The artistic Duo ‘Delirio Colectivo’ made their local Climate crisis visible of the sacrifice zone where lays a giant discarded clothing Dump in the Atacama Desert, representing a ‘textile dune' relating these two world locations, connected by its fate as an environmental sacrifice zone inflicted by the hand of the humankind.

The Future School (TFS) have invited "Delirio Colectivo Duo" (Consuelo & Ronny), as part of TFS initiative of Chilean environmental artist international visibilization. They are considered professionals and at the same time students. TFS is supervising their participation, but trying to keep the artistic project with the creative process as free as possible.