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SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International in Lebanon. We strive to conserve biodiversity for the provision of a better quality of life through sustaining sites, habitats, species, and people.
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Homat Al Hima

Hima Anjar Youth Explore the Birds of Ammiq Wetland

An educational visit under SPNL’s PROZHUM project, funded by AFD, brought young people into the field to learn about birds, wetland habitats and responsible...

Unmaking the Trap: A Joint Effort Clears 63,030 Square Metres of Illegal Bird Nets in Lebanon

Four hours of fieldwork in northern Lebanon removed 24,750 square metres of trapping nets—building on an earlier operation in the northern Bekaa and showing...
Hima Lala

Five New Himas Double the Network in SPNL’s West Bekaa Project Area

New sites in Kefraya, Saghbine, Lala, Baaloul and Joub Jannine bring the project area’s Hima network to ten. SPNL’s fieldwork and engagement with municipalities in...

Making Dairy Wastewater Treatment Work in West Bekaa

Assessments of nine factories highlight the need to combine suitable technology with operator training, maintenance and affordable running costs. Installing a wastewater treatment system is...
Environment
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Forests key to mitigating climate change

Drought and unsustainable practices are placing forests at risk, yet they are crucial to the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global...
SPNL

How women are expanding horizons with solar power

Today, on International Women’s Day, the women of Deir Kanoun Ras el Ain cooperative in South Lebanon embarked on a quiet revolution. Together with...
SPNL

US desert songbirds at risk in a warming climate

Projected increases in the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves in the desert of the southwestern United States are putting songbirds at greater risk...
SPNL

Today is #WomensDay! When women workers organize, they can achieve anything.

The 2017 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, focuses on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”. The world of...
SPNL

Pesticides are “global human rights concern”, say UN experts urging new...

Two United Nations experts are calling for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming,...
SPNL

Kherbet Qanafar hosts the closing ceremony of “Enhancing livelihoods of Lebanese...

The Society for The Protection of Nature in Lebanon organized a closing ceremony for the European Union-funded project entitled “Enhancing livelihoods of Lebanese communities...