Thursday 28/November/2024 – 12:18 PM
Fayoum Governorate organized a clean-up campaign on the southwestern coast of Lake Qarun, where migratory birds flock, as it is a natural reserve and an important body of water. Guests of the First Fayoum International Film Festival for Environmental Films and Contemporary Arts also watched the fishing activities in Lake Qarun, after it gradually recovered and returned to its former state. Sidelines of the festival activities.
A campaign to clean the coast of Lake Qarun
He participated in the activities of the clean-up campaign and watched the fishing activities in the lake QarunAnona de Wiva, the Belgian environmental and community activist, Sayed Abdel Khaleq, director of the First Fayoum International Film Festival for Environmental Films and Contemporary Arts, Sherine Mohamed, head of the Youssef Al-Siddiq Center and City, Hossam Shaaban, head of the Environmental Affairs Agency branch in Fayoum, and a crowd of Arab and foreign festival guests, and representatives of directorates. Youth and sports, education, agriculture, and irrigation in the governorate, directors of the environment and solid waste departments in the governorate’s general office, and a number of university students.
The guests of the Fayoum International Film Festival also watched the fishing activities in Lake Qarun, which demonstrates and confirms the efforts made during the last five years to develop the lake and gradually restore the environmental balance to it, through the implementation of many sanitation projects in the villages adjacent to Lake Qarun, and maintaining and raising the efficiency of the drainage station. industrial area in Kom Oshim, in addition to deepening the course of the Bahr Youssef and increasing the access of fresh water to the lake, in addition to the work of clearing and dredging its coast and removing waste on an ongoing basis, which contributed to the relative improvement. To the lake’s water, it helped bring shrimp larvae and fish fry into it, in light of the recovery witnessed by the lake and its gradual return to its previous state.