New web tool designed to help migratory birds gets lift-off

This new tool will provide developers with access to information on the distribution of soaring bird species along the Rift Valley / Red Sea flyway.

February: A new web tool that will help protect migratory soaring birds along the Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway has been launched by the BirdLife UNDP/GEF Migratory Soaring Birds project. The tool has been designed to provide developers, planning authorities and other interested stakeholders access to information on the distribution of soaring bird species along the Rift Valley/Red Sea flyway.

This information can help to inform decisions on the safe siting of new developments, such as wind farms, ensuring that negative impacts on this important migration route are minimised.The Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway hosts the migration of over two million soaring birds through the region, with soaring birds in huge flocks numbering tens of thousands migrating from wintering grounds in Africa to breeding grounds in Europe and Central Asia and vice versa along the second biggest Flyway in the world for soaring birds.




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