From HMY to Smart Hima: Reviving a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition of Environmental Governance
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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...
$3 billion wetland conservation project launched for birds, nature & people
Today, BirdLife announced an ambitious new collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership to protect wetlands along one of...
Season’s tweetings: World Migratory Bird Day celebrated at SPNL’s Himas across...
People all over the world celebrated on October 9 World Migratory Bird Day, a global campaign that aims to raise awareness of migratory birds...
UN Human Rights Council approves universal right to healthy environment
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In a landmark historical moment, the UN Human Rights Council has unanimously voted in favour of introducing a new human right: the universal right...
Wow! We did it!! It’s time to CELEBRATE!
Today in Geneva, the UN's Human Rights Commission adopted the resolution of the universal right to a healthy environment and it's on its way...
UN Human Rights Council’s adopted landmark recognition that having a healthy...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on States to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to...
World Migratory Bird Day on 9 October Celebrates Birds and Nature
On Saturday, 9 October people all over the world will be celebrating World Migratory Bird Day, a global campaign that aims to raise awareness of...
