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...
Warmer climate threatening to northern birds
Will northern birds such as the Siberian jay and the red-flanked bluetail be gone in 50 years? There is a huge risk since a...
Researcher studies increased predation of sagebrush songbirds in natural gas fields
Arid land bird populations are in decline around the vicinity of oil and gas wells in Wyoming -- but, not for the reasons you...
Pufferfish Love Explains Mysterious Underwater Circles
In 1995, divers noticed a beautiful, strange circular pattern on the seafloor off Japan, and soon after, more circles were discovered nearby. Some likened...
6 things you might have missed from the 2016 Red List
By Alex Dale,
ales of parrots in peril and giraffes in jeopardy dominated the headlines when the 2016 edition of the Red List was published...
2016 Red List: great news for island endemics, disaster for cagebirds
By Alex Dale,
This year’s IUCN Red List update delivers a chilling warning about the plight faced by some of the world’s most popular cagebirds,...
Only a handful of countries on track to meet their biodiversity...
At the Convention on Biological Diversity today, global conservation NGOs released a report revealing that just 5 percent of countries who have reported...
