Beirut River Valley: Towards Establishing Lebanon’s First Natural Park
Project Overview
Duration: 18 months (July 2025 – December 2026)
Donor: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Target Area: Upper Beirut River Valley in Mount lebanon
Villages...
Sustainable Water Ecosystems Restoration: Reviving the Upper Litani River and Qaraaoun Lake
Project Overview
Duration: 17 months (June 2025 – November 2026)
Donor: Donors' Initiative for Mediterranean Freshwater Ecosystems (DIMFE)
Target Area: West Bekaa (Upper Litani and Qaraoun Lake)
Villages...
SPNL Launches Traveling Exhibition in Souk Al Ghareb: Featuring the Inauguration of the Lavender Garden
“Hima Charter Stitching Mount-Lebanon Landscape, One Hima At a Time”
A New Symbol of Community Resilience and Biodiversity
The Society for the Protection of Nature in...
SPNL Launches Field Engagement in West Bekaa Under DIMFE Project
Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems and Introducing Hima Governance in the Upper Litani Basin
As part of the newly launched project “Sustainable Water Ecosystems Restoration: Reviving the...
Promoting Hima Women Empowerment for Conservation and Livelihood
Project Goal:The livelihood of rural women is enhanced through the revival of the Hima approach in the sustainable management of the IBAs of Lebanon.
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Endangered Species: Lebanon’s wildlife and wild places are facing many threats
Lebanon’s wildlife and wild places are facing many threats; hunting, pollution, urban encroachment; quarrying, invasive species, the list goes on and on.
Some species thrive...
Empowerment of women through vocational training on carpet weaving
Through the presence of the municipality of Anjar and Fekha villages and the local community, SPNL has recently concluded the project titled “Vocational Trainings...
Promoting “Hima Women Empowerment” for Conservation and Livelihood
SPNL initiated in the beginning of 2013 a project for empowering women funded by the UN Women Fund for Gender Equality–titled “Promoting Hima Women...
IUCN Red List raises more red flags for threatened species
By Martin Fowlie
Almost 80% of temperate slipper orchids and over 90% of lemurs are threatened with extinction, according to the latest update of the...
Closing Ceremony for Andaket EU funded project
The EU funded project entitled “Revive traditional approaches for the benefit of the future” is implemented in Andaket, Upper Akkar. The duration of this...
