Hima for Peace Takes Centre Stage at BirdLife Summit in Nairobi
From protecting birds and habitats to building bridges between communities, Lebanon’s Hima revival offers a community-led pathway to conservation, resilience and peace
Nairobi, Kenya —...
Birds are running out of places to land: 45% of migratory bird species now in decline
BirdLife International today publishes State of the World's Birds at the Global Flyways Summit in Nairobi. BirdLife Partners, NGOs, governments and financial institutions sign the Nairobi Flyways Declaration, as...
Andre Bechara Highlights SPNL’s Hima Model for Community-Led Conservation at BirdLife Summit
Andre Bechara, Head of the Homat Al Hima Programme at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), brought Lebanon’s Hima experience...
Remember this word: HIMA.
In a powerful 60-second pitch, Raghida Haddad, Editor in Chief of Al Hima environmental magazine, addressed nearly 500 delegates from 124 countries gathered at...
Slaughter of the song birds
Songbirds are a culinary delicacy in Cyprus — but catching and eating them is illegal. Even so, the practice is on the rise and...
Good news for lynx, wolf, bear (& citizen science) from Slovakia
Drawing on a dataset of four years of annual survey effort, the latest Slovakia expedition report now posits that there are stable populations of...
Snow program hosts the Third Voice for Lebanon ...
On Saturday January 16, 2016 the Third voice for Lebanon remitted the prize for the winners in the frame of the inter school competition...
Ghana’s Grey Parrot population may soon cease to exist
In the last two decades Ghana has lost 90-99% of its Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus)population. This is according to a recently published study by a...
The Eyes of the Cormorant
The first time I encountered the cormorant was in England, when I was about 14 years old. When I heard that the origin of...
News in Photos: Farmer stops traffic taking his 5,000 ducks for...
A Chinese farmer caused chaos on the roads when he ducked out to feed his flock of 5,000. Hong brought streets in the eastern city...
