Mindy Baha El Din (1 November 1958[1] – 18 March 2013) was an American-born Egyptian environmentalist.
Together with her husband, ornithologist and herpetologist Sherif Baha El Din [de] she made contributions to the protection of migratory birds and their habitats,[2] she also helped lay the foundations of the Nature Conservation Sector of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) and in the establishment of Egypt's Protected Area network.
In the late 1990s she and her husband, whom she married in 1989, worked as freelance ecologists and wildlife management consultants, organizing and guiding birding tours through Egypt, producing educational materials, launching campaigns promoting migratory bird conservation and studying migration.
Mindy and Sherif Baha El Din were advisers of the Nature Conservation Sector within the EEAA.
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.