NNA – Ehden – Dr. Michel Sawan, an expert in birds, gave a lecture, in the context of the awareness activities carried out by the Ehden Reserve Administration, on: Birds of Lebanon: “Conserving them protects us”, “in the reserve house in Nabe’ Jouait, in the presence of the work team of guides, wardens and workers seasonal.
The director of the reserve, Engineer Sandra Kosa Saba, indicated that “the timing of the lecture, with the approach of the hunting season in the fall, aims to raise awareness, and it is a workshop that will be supplemented by daily field visits with the expert Sawan to work on monitoring the birds in the reserve and updating the list of birds in the Ehden Reserve.”
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Dr. Michel Sawan addressed in his lecture the importance of Lebanon in terms of birds and its importance as well on the migration line because the birds come from Europe following breeding in the spring and moving to Africa through the Lebanon Corridor. He also addressed the importance of birds in eliminating insects and their important role in attracting tourists.
He also addressed the importance of birds in maintaining clean air by eating carrion and rodents, and their role in preserving crops by eating them, for example, mice.
He touched on the birds allowed to be hunted, reporting violations of poaching, and awareness plans that must be launched from schools to urban guidance and to reduce water pollution that harms and threatens birds.
He presented the flint of birds whose presence was monitored in Ehden and were not registered, such as the “Syrian wood beak”, “black-eared”, the black eagle and the Abu Al-Hanna, who returned following a century’s absence to the Chouf and the generosity of the dowry and Ehden.
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