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...
Over 100 000 citizens demand the UN to recognise a new...
Citizens from around the world are demanding that the right to a clean, healthy environment is made a Universal Human Rights. Over 100 000...
Pompiers solidaires visited Hima Hammana
Pompiers solidaires from France visited Hima Hammana, bird observatory, and hima farm they met with Hammana mayor Mr. Fadi Slaybi who welcomes them in...
14th October the magic of migration: Save the Date for our...
Our next webinar is going to be part of a month of celebration in October of the wonder that is migratory birds.
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The...
Last flight of the goddess: How I Met Anahita
By Maher Osta, SPNL field officer
Anahita is the name of the ancient Persian goddess of fertility, water, health, healing, and wisdom, so how come...
BirdLife International: Stop illegal killing of migratory soaring birds in Lebanon
Our concern is protecting the 2.5 billion migratory birds that pass over Lebanon, twice a year. When flying over Lebanon, 2.6 million migratory birds...
Designing Management Plans for the Hima Sites
The Society for Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) and CommonsConnect kicked-off their seven-week training to raise the capacity of SPNL team, along with...
