From HMY to Smart Hima: Reviving a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition of Environmental Governance
https://youtu.be/TVdM7-xNMA0
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...
Join SPNL at Kanafar Half Marathon 2017
A- Rules and Application Procedures
1) KANAFAR ANNUAL RACES – RUN FOR HIMA - 21 Km and 6 Km will take place on 20st August...
7 stunning bird courtship displays that’ll make you swoon
Before sex, first comes the courtship period – and few know how to catch the eye quite like birds. Male birds have evolved an...
The mystery of the seabird that barks like a dog
By Tânia Pipa
Tânia Pipa from SPEA (BirdLife Portugal) shares news of a very happy discovery on the tiny islet of Baixo off the ‘White...
After the Arab Spring: learning to love nature again
from “protect by punishment” to “protect by involving people”: read about the peaceful revolution that is changing nature conservation in North Africa and the...
Wings and Waves June – July 2017
SPNL's Wing & Waves Newsletter June - July 2017
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SPNL and ACS will be working together on the symbolic sites of the Shouf...
Birdlife report quoted in the 2017 Lebanese Official Exams
SPNL (Birdlife Lebanon) is glad to know that Birdlife 2015 report "The killing" that was translated to arabic and distributed by SPNL to the Lebanese media,...
