Background
Mindy Baha El Din was born as Mindy Rosenzweig in Chicago, Illinois.
Mindy Baha El Din was born as Mindy Rosenzweig in Chicago, Illinois.
Indiana University.
After her graduation in Arabic and economics at the Indiana University she took a course in field ornithology at the Cornell University and became a birdwatcher. As employee of BirdLife International she went to Egypt in 1988 and established an environmental education center at the Giza Zoo in Giza. In the early 1990s she helped in establishing the Technical Office of the Environment (TCOE) of the EEAA, which was the dynamic technical kitchen that helped develop and finance the early development of Egypt"s primary environmental protection organization.
Mindy and Doctor Sherif Baha El Din were advisers of the Nature Conservation Sector within the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency.
In 1994 they founded Tortoise Care Egypt, a group of international and local organizations and individuals, with the aim to build up a captive breeding project for the critically endangered Kleinmann"s tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) which was extirpated in Egypt. She suffered a stroke on 14 March of which she died in the early morning of the 18 March 2013 in a hospital in Giza.