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...
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...
National Consultation Workshop for Ecosystem Profile update for the Mediterranean Basin
The Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot, Lebanon being one of its major components, is the second largest hotspot in the world and the largest of...
My experience with a very generous man, Luc Hofmann
* Ghassan Ramadan Jaradi
In September 1973, I was registered to prepare a PhD of ornithology in Saint Jerome University (Aix-Marseille III University) at the...
Nature Alert: Letter to an Enemy
In the summer of 2015, the EU Commission began considering whether to rewrite the vital laws that protect Europe’s wildlife and nature. They...
Jordanian authorities seize 7,000 dead birds in largest recorded hunting violation
Hunter, a gov’t employee, to be fined JD20-25 for every bird killed
By Hana Namrouqa – Oct 05,2016
AMMAN — Authorities on Wednesday announced the seizure...
Buy a stamp, save a migratory bird
This time of the year in many parts of North America, it’s easy to find geese flying south in V-shaped flocks from their summer...
Roman Sidonian Glass Flask with Birds and Butterflies
"From this point we must go back to the coast and to Phoenicia. There was formerly a town called Crocodilon, and there is still...
