The Migratory Soaring Birds project have an innovative approach aiming to mainstream MSB concerns within economic sectors including hunting, tourism, waste management, agriculture, and energy. SPNL is currently concentrating on the energy sector, trying to strengthen our collaboration with main stakeholders, especially regarding renewable energy.
SPNL welcomes the development of energy, within the country and supports the shift to more renewable sources of energy; and decreasing electricity bills; taking into consideration mitigation measures towards the minimum impact on birds and biodiversity.
Within this context, SPNL had a fruitful meeting with LCEC director Mr. Pierre Khoury at the Ministry of Energy & Water on Monday 4 July 2022. The results of the meeting were as follows: LCEC is interested to sign an MoU with SPNL asap. The MoU will address 4 main points:
– Review all LCEC developed documents related to renewable energy especially wind farms.
– Collaborate together to organize a face-to-face hybrid conference regarding the impact of renewable energy on birds.
– Develop/adapt guidelines for renewable energy. Based on that, LCEC will follow on legal obligations.
– Address schools regarding renewable energy through Hima School programme.
This would strengthen efforts towards the conservation of MSBs through mainstreaming within national documents; thus a win-win situation for nature and people.
The Migratory Soaring Birds project aims to integrate conservation management objectives into targeted public and private sectors in 11 countries along the Rift Valley / Red Sea flyway. More information can be found on our project page.
The targeted sectors are the following: Agriculture, Energy, Hunting, Waste Management and Tourism.
