A Future Rooted in the Land: SPNL’s New Playbook Opens the Door to Community Conservation
Combining an ancient tradition with practical steps for local action, the Hima Playbook shows how communities can protect nature while sustaining the livelihoods, knowledge...
From “What Is a Hima?” to “How Do We Begin?”: A Playbook for Community Conservation
By Assad Serhal
Director General, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)
Whenever we speak about the revival of the Hima, two questions almost...
Women and the Hima: Empowering Communities, Protecting Nature and Sustaining Livelihoods
The Hima: A relationship between people and nature
The Hima is more than a protected geographical area. It represents a relationship between people, nature, culture...
118 Lebanese Environmental NGOs Endorse the “Hima for Peace” Initiative
SPNL to expand the initiative through engagement with ten ministries and launch it internationally in Nairobi on 8 September 2026
A broad coalition of 118...
Souk El Hima Lebanon
The Souk El Hima program has been established to answer to the local communities’ need to have their products marketed and to raise awareness...
Lebanon’s Soaring Birds Atlas launched
MSB Lebanon and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), BirdLife in Lebanon, has just launched a major Atlas on the...
News in Photos: Hooded Crow in Deir Koubel – Kaza Aley
SPNL media campaigner Bassam Alkantar was lucky to meet with this Hooded Crow in Deir Koubel - Kaza Aley. This birds was too Young...
Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming MSB conservation
Amman hosted a workshop to discuss and evaluate the project titled "Mainstreaming Conservation of Migratory Soaring Birds into Key Productive Sectors along the Rift...
Tackling illegal trapping in Cyprus
“I wouldn’t want to be a bird because it is so difficult”, said a young girl in a school in Cyprus.
She had just been...
Birds ‘heard tornadoes coming’ and fled one day ahead
US scientists say tracking data shows that five golden-winged warblers "evacuated" their nesting site one day before the April 2014 tornado outbreak.
Geolocators showed the...
