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...
SPNL and ACS will be working together on the symbolic sites...
As part of the MAVA Foundation’s recently launched 2016-2022 strategy, 15 partners in the Mediterranean are collaborating to implement a 6-year programme aimed at...
The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus)
By Fouad Itani
The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater is a richly colored bird from the Meropidae family. It measures 30 cm in length, with a wingspan of 47 cm,...
The “Nature Watchdogs” keeping Cyprus’ wildlife safe
By Louise Jasper
The Larnaca Salt Lakes are actually a complex of four water bodies that lie to the south of Larnaca, an ancient city...
Responsible Hunting practice in Lebanon is to be put to the...
Words: Assad Serhal
Photo credits: Afonso Rocha
"From Portugal , the nesting white storks .You can see them everywhere on the Portugal Landscape , nesting...
