118 Lebanese Environmental NGOs Endorse the “Hima for Peace” Initiative
SPNL to expand the initiative through engagement with ten ministries and launch it internationally in Nairobi on 8 September 2026
A broad coalition of 118...
SPNL Publishes New Guide Celebrating Hima Niha and Hima Hardine: Two Sister Villages, One Living Heritage
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has released a new bilingual publication presenting Hima Niha and Hima Hardine as two...
Launch of the “Hima Niha Park” in Batroun During the “Homat Al Hima Forum” Under the Patronage of the Minister of Youth and Sports
Under the patronage and in the presence of Minister of Youth and Sports Dr. Nora Bayrakdarian, the Homat Al Hima Forum was held in...
CALL FOR SUPPORTING COMMUNITY-LED CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
During the declaration of the “Garden of the Patriarchs–Diman” as a Hima within the Qadisha Valley on 6 August 2026, SPNL Director General Assaad...
Former mayor of Hammana Bashir Fouad Farhat: We are on the...
Since the beginning of the last century, Hammana has been one of the most prominent summer villages in Mount Lebanon and is famous for...
Mayor of Hammana Fadi Slaybi: Cooperation with SPNL and Air France...
We have never hidden our feeling that we, as the sons of Hammana, have a privilege that the Creator has given us, one in...
Hammana: Food Symbols and Heritage
By Christelle Salah Bou-Mitri El Debs
Doctor in Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, proudly from Hammana and volunteering at the Hima Hammana
Hammana village is rooted...
Master the art of the perfect “Light” jam!
HHIC- West Beqaa, Lebanon
On 11 December 2020, the center was boiling with the joy of learning how to make high-fruit jam. Under the MSB...
Safe Passage For Migratory Birds
Migration can only be mastered if the birds find safe resting places along their route where they can find food and recover their strength....
Red List 2020: seven things you might have missed
The carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may soon need to become one verse shorter as a European partridge is listed as Near Threatened....
