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...
Former mayor of Hammana Bashir Fouad Farhat: We are on the...
Since the beginning of the last century, Hammana has been one of the most prominent summer villages in Mount Lebanon and is famous for...
Mayor of Hammana Fadi Slaybi: Cooperation with SPNL and Air France...
We have never hidden our feeling that we, as the sons of Hammana, have a privilege that the Creator has given us, one in...
Hammana: Food Symbols and Heritage
By Christelle Salah Bou-Mitri El Debs
Doctor in Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, proudly from Hammana and volunteering at the Hima Hammana
Hammana village is rooted...
Master the art of the perfect “Light” jam!
HHIC- West Beqaa, Lebanon
On 11 December 2020, the center was boiling with the joy of learning how to make high-fruit jam. Under the MSB...
Safe Passage For Migratory Birds
Migration can only be mastered if the birds find safe resting places along their route where they can find food and recover their strength....
Red List 2020: seven things you might have missed
The carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may soon need to become one verse shorter as a European partridge is listed as Near Threatened....
