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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Environment

SPNL Participates in Rachaya and Beyond’s Ceremony Marking Ten Years of Volunteer Action

At the kind invitation of Rachaya and Beyond, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) took part in the honorary ceremony...

When Migration Turns Fatal: Lebanon’s Growing Threat to Migratory Birds

Lebanon, a small country with an outsized ecological role, sits at the heart of one of the world’s most important migratory bird routes. Every...

Hima: From Letter Memory to Contemporary Environmental Governance

Four Thousand Years of Natural Resource Management Hima is not a recent invention nor an isolated historical practice. Rather, it represents a surface layer built...

From Awareness to Partnership, Building a Shared Front Against Illegal Hunting in Deir El Ahmar

In the heart of Lebanon’s northern Bekaa, where natural landscapes are closely intertwined with local livelihoods, the Union of Deir El Ahmar Municipalities hosted...
Publications
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Bird Identification Manual

Download the Book Plant pollinators, seed dispersers, agricultural pest controllers, environmental health indicators, amusers, art and technology inspirers… They are the birds, the ecological agents...
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Field Guide to the Soaring Birds in Lebanon

Download the Book Lebanon has been characterized as a ‘bottleneck’ site, as it lies on one of the most important flyways for migratory soaring birds...
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New Signatory to CMS Raptors MoU: Lebanon

Lebanon signed the CMS Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia (Raptors MoU). This brings the...
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Mark Your Calender: On the Move Exhibition and Souk El Hima

Under the patronage of his Excellency The Minister of Environment Mohammad Al Mashnouk Through the generous contribution of the European Union, UN Women's Fund for Gender...
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IUCN summit delivers major commitments to save Earth’s

The IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, the once-in-a-decade global forum on protected areas, closed on 19th of November 2014 with the release of The...
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Hundreds of important sites for nature threatened with destruction

More than 350 of the planet’s most important sites for nature are threatened with being lost forever according to a new report by BirdLife...