Nature’s Silent Guardians: Celebrating Vultures on International Vulture Awareness Day
A Misunderstood Bird with a Vital Role
They circle high above the savannas, deserts, and mountains, their silhouettes stark against the horizon. For centuries, vultures...
2,900 Species Illustrated, 440 Recorded in Beirut Valley: Lebanon’s Biodiversity in Focus
Lebanon’s Beirut Valley has once again revealed its secrets through the lens of biomonitoring. With every hike, photograph, and field note, Husein Ali Zorkot...
Mapping Lebanon’s Green Heart: A Landmark Flora and Biodiversity Map
Lebanon has taken a significant step forward in documenting and protecting its natural heritage with the launch of the first national map of flora...
Anti-Poaching Unit: From Awareness to Institutional Partnerships for Bird Protection in Lebanon
Between July 23 and August 23, 2025, the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) carried out a packed agenda of activities that combined awareness, field patrols, community...
World Wetlands Day: Bolstering resilience and collaboration to reduce disaster risk
On February 2nd the world celebrates it's wetlands – complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and nature....
How Homat Al Hima is protecting Anjar’s Riparian forest
By Berj Tumberian
Back in 2013 16th of August, when this small, two hectare Riparian forest in Hima Anjar, the home for the threatened river otter...
Tropical forests need birds in order to recover from deforestation
by Bruno Martin
Research in the Amazon suggests that loss of birds through deforestation prevents the recovery of rainforests, due to birds' roles in the...
Homat Al Hima Finds Den of Red Fox Pups in Anjar
By Bassam Alkantar
SPNL’s Homat Al Hima of Anjar camera trap watches a den of red foxes in the wild forest of Hima Anjar, Bekaa...
Stop illegal seagulls killing in Lebanon
Lebanese environmental groups condemned the hunting of seagull off Beirut's southern shores, near the Rafik Hariri International Airport.
Our birds deserve safer flyways. To tackle these...
Young Leaders Workshop by MAVA
SPNL, whose employees and trainees are mainly young professionals who have graduated or still majoring in environmental fields, aims at enabling there role through...
