SPNL

SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International in Lebanon. We strive to conserve biodiversity for the provision of a better quality of life through sustaining sites, habitats, species, and people.
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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...
Azanus-jesous-J.M.-Garg Photo Credit : Husein Ali Zorkot 

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...
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Providing Water for Birds during hot summer

Like all animals, birds need water to survive. Though they can extract some moisture from their food, most birds drink water every day. Birds...
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Sensational Butterflies at the Natural History Museum

Enjoy a perfect family experience at the Natural History Museum’s Sensational Butterflies exhibition this summer. Assad Serhal,  Director General of Society for the Protection of Nature...
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Transnational conservation in Turkey could save six threatened bird species

By Sanya Khetani-Shah, In a great example of nature conservation knowing no national boundaries, Doğa Derneği (BirdLife in Turkey), with the support of theBulgarian Society...
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WE WISH YOU A VERY BLESSED EID MUBARAK

Dear Friends and partners We wish you and your family a very blessed EID Mubarak.  May God bless you with good health, peace, joy, and...
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Safe skies for migratory birds in Sudan

By Ibrahim M. Hashim/Sudanese Wildlife Society The Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS) held a one day workshop to mark World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) on 23rd May...
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Evaluating the Status of the Monk Seal Population in Lebanon

The Forgotten Guardian of Lebanon’s Shores: The Mediterranean Monk Seal’s Silent Struggle Along the rugged Lebanese coastline, where the Mediterranean’s waves meet centuries-old fishing traditions,...