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...
The impact of intergenerational mentoring on leadership perspectives The story of...
When Blandine Melis and Jamal Hamzeh, two environmental leaders working in Cape Verde and Lebanon respectively, joined the MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy in 2020, they couldn’t have imagined the impact it would have on their personal and professional...
Spectacular HIMA FOR PEACE Kayfoun Quranic garden & “AL Hosn” ancient...
Upon the invitation of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) and the municipality of Kayfoun, the Minister of Culture Mohammad...
Coming Together to Create a Stronger Mediterranean Partnership
The Alliance for Mediterranean Culture and Nature continues to grow from strength to strength by drawing on our experiences as the M6 partnership, now...
The 3rd Mediterranean MPA Forum is now over and the mobilisation...
The 2020 Forum of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean took place from 28 November to 1st December 2021 in Monaco and online. This...
Spectacular HIMA FOR PEACE Shemlane Biblical Garden gets a little wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgNPYSiQCc
On Sunday 5 December 2021, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon- SPNL and the Municipality of Shemlane announced the soft opening...
SPNL is supporting the preservation of “AL Hosn” ancient castle...
A very fruitful meeting was held on Wednesday, November 24, between the Minister of Culture Mohammad Wissam Murtada, Kayfoun mayor Bilal Wafic Saad, Asaad...
