“An Autumn Without Quails” Wins the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate Award for best investigation in a foreign language

“An Autumn Without Quails”, an investigation by journalists Muhammad Abu Laila and Alia Abu Shahba, won the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate “Mohamed Salmawy Award for Journalism in Foreign Language”.

This investigation reveals that weak monitoring and inspection amongst several authorities, increases subsistence poaching and the use of criminalized methods against migratory songbirds. This has exposed them to extinction, despite Egypt’s commitment to International Conventions to preserve them, as it is the world’s second most important route for migratory birds.