From HMY to Smart Hima: Reviving a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition of Environmental Governance
https://youtu.be/TVdM7-xNMA0
Environmental conservation is often perceived as a modern response to contemporary crises. Yet, in this region, the idea of protecting nature through collective responsibility...
From Rivers to Resilience: How SPNL Advanced Nature Conservation Across Lebanon in Late 2025
Between November and December 2025, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) intensified its work across Lebanon’s most sensitive ecosystems, rivers,...
At Dawn in the Beqaa: How SPNL s Tracking Lebanon’s Birds, One Checklist at a Time
In the early hours of the morning, when mist still lingers above wetlands and fields, Chadi Saad is already in the field. Notebook in...
SPNL and the Art of Conservation: Documenting Life, One Species at a Time in Lebanon
In a modest field cabin overlooking the hills of Mount Lebanon, surrounded by sketchbooks, cameras, plant presses, and reference volumes, the work of documenting...
Lebanon Launches Hima Kornayel Under the Patronage of the Minister of...
Under the patronage of the Minister of Environment, Dr. Tamara Elzein, and in the presence of Her Excellency Dr. Marion Weichelt, Ambassador of Switzerland...
A Connected Landscape: Dr. Nizar Hani on the Future of Agriculture...
Connectivity and integration between forests and agricultural lands is the future. Hopefully, in collaboration with local authorities, central government, and NGOs, led by SPNL,...
Numbers that Talk
2025: The International Year of Glacier Preservation
(Al Hima Magazine 6th Edition)
Around 70% of the global freshwater is stored in glaciers and ice sheets, however...
From Lebanon to the World: Al Hima at the IUCN Congress...
by Raghida Haddad
As Abu Dhabi hosts the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025, Al Hima magazine proudly joins the global conversation. The Society for the...
From Tradition to Global Conservation: How Hima Aligns with IUCN’s...
By Assad Serhal, Director General of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), Founder and Chairman of Homat Al Hima International...
SPNL Releases Sixth Issue of Al Hima Magazine Razan Al Mubarak:...
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has released the sixth issue of Al Hima magazine, spotlighting the upcoming International Union...
