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...
Spectacular Butterfly Migration Sweeps Through in Spring 2019
Heavy rains in the drier parts of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa led to a surge in the spring populations of painted lady (Vanessa...
Butterflies swarm Lebanon’s meadows in numbers unseen for 100 years
A vast number of migrating butterflies have swarmed across Lebanon this year after heavy winter rain in the Middle East led to an exceptional...
Think millennials are apathetic about conservation? Think again
If you think millennials are too busy looking at their phones to care about conservation, you haven’t met these young people. Every year, we...
This map lets you track bird migration in real time
With Euro Bird Portal’s LIVE viewer, you can look at weekly animated maps showing where birds have been sighted in real time
By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
Springtime....
Study: Could new government targets drive better nature conservation?
In 2010, governments around the world committed to protecting at least 17% of land areas and 10% of marine areas by 2020. It’s a...
MEET THE JUDGES Rania Masri #Lebanon #MedStoryPrize #RootedEveryday
Rania Masri PhD is a political ecologist, environmental justice activist, and the regional coordinator for the Academic Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice. Throughout...
