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.
The world’s leading voices in environmental conservation converged in Abu Dhabi today, as the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 officially opened its doors to...
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) brought Lebanon’s ancestral conservation wisdom to the global stage at the IUCN World Conservation...
In a landmark moment for global biodiversity, the World Bank and BirdLife International have launched the African–Eurasian Flyway Initiative (AEFI) — an unprecedented effort...
Under the BioConnect project, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) organized a full-day workshop with the fishermen of Mansouri, located...
The scientific paper on illegal killing of birds in the Mediterranean titled "Preliminary assessment of the scope and scale of illegal killing and taking...
MedScapes (2014-2015):
An EU funded project to develop Landscape Character Assessment, as a tool for the effective conservation of natural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Landscapes...
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By Assad Serhal - SPNL Director General
Medscapes is a project to demonstrate the importance of landscape and establish a common approach towards its...
SPNL Launches The Hima Guideline Manual
The Hima Guideline Manual provides information on the Medscapes project, its aim and vision, and highlights briefly the content...
Status of Lighthouses in Lebanon
Lebanon has lighthouses all along its coast. There are lighthouses in Tyre, Saida, Beirut, Batroun and Tripoli. Unfortunately, most of...
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the world’s most endangered marine mammals, with fewer than 600 individuals currently surviving. It is believed to...