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...
Mediterranean Basin Aiming Higher
In the land of the cedar, having feathers is not a good thing. Every year, masses of migratory birds – more than 250 species...
Project Planning workshop Using the Opening Standards Approach
Through the generous support of the MAVA Foundation, SPNL organized an evaluation and a phase II Planning Workshop for the project titled “ Restoring...
Maximizing the value of birds for tourism – guidebook released
By Julien.Jreissati,
The BirdLife-led Migratory Soaring Birds (MSB) project has developed a guidebook that provides practical information to maximize the value that birds bring to...
Major breakthrough in fight to save Asian vultures from extinction
By Martin Fowlie
A major step for the future of vultures in Asia has been announced by the Indian Ministry of Health. A ban of...
News in Photos: Isis releases photos of the northern bald Ibis...
Isis releases photos of the Northern Bald Ibis in Palmyra -- the last surviving colony in the Middle East. The Northern Bald Ibis may...
Birds-of-Paradise Project
It took 8 years and 18 expeditions to New Guinea, Australia, and nearby islands, but Cornell Lab scientist Ed Scholes and National Geographic photographer...
