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...
The Northern Bald Ibis: recent sightings have confirmed that a few...
The Northern Bald Ibis is a critically endangered species that is highly social and congregates in large flocks. At one time two separate populations...
Protecting Lebanon’s Wildlife | Assad Serhal of SPNL Interview with Charlie...
"Then I saw a covey of Bobwhite Quails - I saw they were looking at me and they were scared - And then I...
Governance Overarching Initiative Project Kick off Meeting
SPNL in collaboration with Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Medina), Global Diversity Foundation (GDF), and Trashumancia y Naturaleza (TyN) launched the Governance Overarching...
Hima Kayfoun
Connected to its neighbouring village, Shimlan, by “The Trail of Peace”, Hima Kayfoun is considered a cultural reunion area, where communities from different backgrounds...
Ecotourism in Action #KHERBET #KANAFAR #LebanonTraveler
Aiming to protect nature, birds and biodiversity in Lebanon, and to promote the sustainable use of natural resources with people through the revival of...
SPNL’s Wing & Waves Newsletter October 2017
Please welcome SPNL’s 19th Hima at Anfeh – North Lebanon
22 September 2017 was an important day for SPNL welcoming Anfeh’s municipal council decree to declare...
