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...
Feathers in Flames: the species being snuffed out by forest fires
A provocative new art exhibition, provided thanks to Saatchi, shows the true cost of the man-made forest fires in Indonesia.
By Alex Dale
Indonesia’s rainforests are...
Five neat tricks to keep your cat from attacking birds
In Canada, as in many countries, domestic cats are a major cause of garden bird mortality. But with a little adjustment, it’s possible to...
Record-breaking 10 million points for seabird conservation
Today we celebrate World Oceans Day as we finally reach 10 million – not dollars, pounds or euros – but valuable data points in...
Raouche rare “monk seal” sighting at “Sporting Beach Club”
Clear close-up video by Sarah Halabi shows “monk seal” sighting at "Sporting Beach Club" in Raouche Beirut, on Wednesday 07 June 2017 at 6:26pm.
This...
Meet The Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
By Fouad Itani
The Eurasian Spoonbill is a large wading bird from the Threskiornithidae family. It measures 85 cm in length, with a wingspan of 120...
LEBANON, Free the Flyway!
For the World Environment Day 2017, the Lebanese Bird Conservation Coalition (LBCC) launched an awareness video on Bird Conservation directed by Pierre Dawalibi .
Millions...
