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...
Monitoring of Illegally Killed Birds in Akoura (Spring 2020) By Ghassan...
Monitoring of Illegally Killed Birds in Akoura (Spring 2020)
By
Ghassan Ramadan Jaradi, PhD
August 2020
INTRODUCTION
The previous monitoring activities in Akoura were using a combination...
Breeding Survey of the Syrian Serin in Lebanon
This research is being conducted by Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund Recipient Association for Bird Conservation in Lebanon (ABCL) led by Fouad Itani.
Backed by...
Go and do: Aghbeh is a bird’s safe passage over Lebanon
On the occasion of World Environment Day, June 5, the anti-poaching unit (APU) of the the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon...
LIVING MEDITERRANEAN REPORT, AN UNPRECEDENTED SOURCE OF DATA ON THE EVOLUTION...
A team of scientists coordinated by the Tour du Valat published today the Living Mediterranean Report, a detailed report on the evolution of Mediterranean biodiversity since 1993.
Living Mediterranean...
ACS students visited Hima Hammana .. A journey of knowledge to...
What do Forest fire prevention, drip irrigation, an Egyptian Vulture and bird protection have in common? The HIMA – “protected areas”, in Arabic. Through...
