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...
Bioconnect
General overview
“Ensuring effective management and governance in Sites of Ecological Importance and expanding biodiversity protection in Southern Lebanon” is a project Funded by the...
“Bioconnect” monitoring for Plants, Birds, Mammals and Herpetofauna in Hima sites
By Elie El-Haddad - Project Manager
In the framework of “Bioconnect”, a project funded by the European Union that aims at ensuring effective management and...
The Advanced Renewable Energy Training for Women Empowerment
The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency – RCEEE and Frederich Ebert Stiftung – FES in collaboration with the Lebanese Center for...
Reviving Tradition: How Hima Farms Are Bringing Sustainability to Lebanon’s Upper...
Reviving Tradition: How Hima Farms Are Bringing Sustainability to Lebanon’s Upper Beirut River Valley
In the rolling hills of the Upper Beirut River Valley, a...
Assad Serhal is to be awarded an Honorary Membership by BirdLife...
From cofounding The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL ) in 1983 to establishing 28 Hima Protected areas and serving three...
Mainstreaming MSB concerns within Energy Sector
The Migratory Soaring Birds project have an innovative approach aiming to mainstream MSB concerns within economic sectors including hunting, tourism, waste management, agriculture, and...
