SPNL Congratulates Razan Al Mubarak on Her Re-Election as IUCN President
Assad Serhal: “A renewed mandate for unity, science, and hope for nature and people.”
Beirut, 16 October 2025 — The Society for the Protection of...
SPNL Meets with IUCN’s Tim Badman to Explore World Heritage Site Designation Process
During the IUCN World Conservation Congress held in Abu Dhabi, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) delegation met with Tim...
SPNL Empowers Local Communities through Nature-Based Solutions and Hima Awareness under the Al Murunah and Al Murunah+ Projects
Under the Al Murunah and Al Murunah+ projects, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) reaffirmed its commitment to empowering local...
In Conversation with Assad Serhal: Reviving the Hima for People and Nature
Today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Manoswini Sarkar sat down with Assad Serhal, Director General of the Society for the Protection of Nature...
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...
AUB Botanical Garden Annual Spring Event: Bird Sanctuary
The American University of Beirut celebrated the Botanical Garden annual spring event: Bird Sanctuary, in a ceremony that gathered academies and members of the Lebanese...
