DBF 2021 Conservation Project

31 december 2021

Promoting birdwatching at the Daasanach tribe in Africa by giving them tools they need!

One of the main objective of the festival is to encourage and promote research and conservation projects. That’s why the profit obtained from the tickets selling is intended to this kind of projects.

Over the editions, we already raised the total amount of 23.000 euros!

For the first time in the short history of this festival, we will support a project that is taking place on another continent, specifically on the shores of Lake Turkana, in the northeast of Kenya, Africa.

Lake Turkana is a huge lake (more than 6,000 km²) located on the Great Rift fault, straddling Ethiopia and Kenya, in the middle of an eminently desert landscape. Its geographical location makes it a strategic stopover point for many species of migratory birds, with special importance for those that have habits linked to the aquatic environment.

In addition, due to the fact that it is an extremely remote and inaccessible area, a good part of the great African fauna is also preserved, although it is much more elusive than in other places, due to the interaction with the inhabitants of the area. Among the different tribes that populate the surroundings of the lake, the Daasanach stand out, whose own language has a written version.

The Delta Birding Festival support them allocating the economic resources generated by the festival to make the publication of the first field guide of birds and other fauna for the Daasanach, written in their language, so that it becomes a basic tool for learning and the collaboration of its members.

Who's behind the Project?

Dani Burgas and Sara Fraixedas, are Catalan scientists from the Global Change and Conservation (GCC) at the Helsinki University and whom are carrying out this project.

How can I support them?

We appeal to all festival visitors to bring us binoculars you are not using (but in minimum good conditions) to give them a second useful life in the hands of the members of the Ileret ornithological club.

It is possible to bring them at ORYX stand during Delta Birding Festival as well as at our store (Balmes Street 71, Barcelona). We will check them in order to send them in the best conditions.

If you have spare mobile phones, they are welcome as wellm so Ileret Ornitological Club will be able to register observations and become part of one of the firsts Africa's citizen science.

Get to know more about the project at his website..

This project is supportet by Barcelona Zoo