From HMY to Smart Hima: Reviving a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition of Environmental Governance
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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...
Give your organisation a boost: the Capacity Development Fund is now...
Our Capacity Development Fund is offering a range of grants for different sizes and types of project. If you think your organisation would benefit...
Parasitic Birds and Parasitized Host Birds
“In a quiet lakeside forest
The cuckoo is calling for you,
‘It’s time to wake up,
cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, ,,,”
Most Japanese know the above song,...
Beehive at Hima Park Khorbet Kanafar
A swarm of honey bees decided an almond tree by the Hima Park Khorbet Kanafar was the best place to start up a colony.
Their...
Bird Your World: 12 simple actions that make life better for...
As part of Year of the Bird, we’re encouraging nature lovers around the world to take small but meaningful actions every month that benefit...
Wings & Waves Newsletter | May 2018
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Afaf Osseiran elected new SPNL president
All of the 12 nominees listed in SPNL’s nomination Circular were elected by acclamation.
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The New president of SPNL...
Little Bittern saved and released at Tyre Coast Nature Reserve
A Little bittern at Tyre Coast Nature Reserve was saved today by the reserve manager Hassan Hamzi and released at the reserve.
This nature reserve...
