Lebanese Environment Forum Pushes for a Legal Framework for Marine Protected Areas Network in Lebanon
After years of active efforts to safeguard Lebanon’s environment, particularly its coastal and marine ecosystems, the Lebanese Environment Forum (LEF), in partnership with the...
Nature’s Silent Guardians: Celebrating Vultures on International Vulture Awareness Day
A Misunderstood Bird with a Vital Role
They circle high above the savannas, deserts, and mountains, their silhouettes stark against the horizon. For centuries, vultures...
2,900 Species Illustrated, 440 Recorded in Beirut Valley: Lebanon’s Biodiversity in Focus
Lebanon’s Beirut Valley has once again revealed its secrets through the lens of biomonitoring. With every hike, photograph, and field note, Husein Ali Zorkot...
Mapping Lebanon’s Green Heart: A Landmark Flora and Biodiversity Map
Lebanon has taken a significant step forward in documenting and protecting its natural heritage with the launch of the first national map of flora...
Landscape assessment and analysis of Hima Kayfoun and Shimlan
On May 10 and 11, 2018, the students at the Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management in the American University of Beirut (AUB)...
Lebanese Bird Conservation Coalition: Our struggle to protect natural heritage and...
In the last few days, there have been several reports of illegal massacres of migrant and locally breeding birds. These shooting incidents have been recorded from the north to the south of Lebanon and many places in-between.
Further...
Birdlife ME delegation visited Hima Keyfoun
Birdlife ME director Ibrahim Khader and Migratory Soaring Birds project manager Ossam AlNouri
visited today SPNL's Mount Lebanon Hima Center and Keyfoun community center.
The visit...
SPNL to open the first butterfly garden at Hima Kherbet Kanafar
Butterfly gardening is a type of sustainable, low maintenance gardening that attracts and maintains butterflies year after year. Threats facing Lebanon's 165 species of...
Great White Pelican discovery in Turkey
A major stopover site of Europe’s Great White Pelicans has recently been discovered in Turkey. A count conducted by our Turkish partner Doğa Derneğishowed...
World Migratory Bird Day – Lead Poisons Birds and People
“Unifying our Voices for Bird Conservation” is the theme of World Migratory Bird Day 2018. Among the significant, but often underestimated threats to migratory...
