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SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International in Lebanon. We strive to conserve biodiversity for the provision of a better quality of life through sustaining sites, habitats, species, and people.
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In Harmony with Nature: Hima Kfarselwan, Where Shepherds Protect the Land

Hima Kfarselwan stands as a living example of how people and nature can thrive together. As part of the “Homat Al Hima and Hima...

Protecting Lebanon’s Migratory Birds: A Month of Field Action and Awareness

Between 23 September and 23 October 2025, the Joint Operations Team of the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) carried out one of its most active field...

Illustrating Life: Husein Zorkot’s Journey to Chronicle Lebanon’s Wildlife

In the quiet hours of dawn, when most of Lebanon still sleeps, Husein Ali Zorkot is already awake — sketching, cataloging, and writing about...

Guardians of the Himas: October Field Stories from Lebanon’s Nature Defenders

Strengthening Lebanon’s Nature Network: Field Highlights from September – October 2025 October 2025 unfolded as a month of remarkable coordination across Lebanon’s Hima network, reflecting...
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Migration: A long-distance love story

For the past 15 years, a lovestruck stork has faithfully returned from its South Africa wintering grounds to the same rooftop in Croatia, where...
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Wings & Waves Newsletter April 2017

SPNL's Wing & Waves Newsletter April 2017 No Images? Click here Celebrate the “World Migratory Bird Day” in Hima Kherbet Kanafar The Society for the Protection of...
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Evidence of Eurasian Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus breeding in Lebanon

GHASSAN RAMADAN-JARADI, FOUAD ITANI & ASSAD SERHAL Eurasian Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus is a summer breeder in Turkey (Kirwan et al 1998, Boyla 2016), a...
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Meet Husein Ali Zorkot: SPNL’s Researcher & Scientific Illustrator is chasing...

Husein Ali Zorkot is a field Biologist, Naturalist, Researcher and Scientific Illustrator at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon is working...
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Celebrate the “World Migratory Bird Day” in Hima Kherbet Kanafar

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, in collaboration with the municipality of Kherbet Kanafar, invites you to celebrate the “World Migratory...
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Nations Meet in Bonn to Take Forward Guidelines for Fully Implementing...

In a next round of UN climate change negotiations, nations are meeting from 8 – 18 May 2017 to further develop the guidelines needed...