Lebanon’s Protected Areas: Between Ancient Traditions and Global Conservation Goals
Lebanon is at a crossroads: its protected areas, recorded in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), reveal both achievements and gaps in the...
Guardians of Hima: Youth Leading Lebanon’s Environmental Future
Through its BioConnect Aside Event project, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL), in collaboration with the Modern University for Business...
“Earth and Freedom” Sports and Environmental Activity in Baysour Hima
As part of efforts to promote environmental awareness and encourage outdoor sports, the Directorate of Education and Youth of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party...
Lebanon Launches First National Bird Distribution Map within Key Biodiversity Areas
In a groundbreaking step for environmental conservation, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) has unveiled the country’s first comprehensive map...
Biodiversity Loses its Godfather – Thomas Lovejoy (1941‑2021)
Over Christmas weekend 2021, the planet lost two of its most precious moral leaders in Archbishop Desmond Tutu and conservationist Dr. Thomas Lovejoy.
For those...
Conservation activist from Kamed El Lawz rescues bird of prey and...
A conservationist from the Kamed El-Louz area in the western Bekaa handed over a bird of prey he had rescued to the Anti-Poaching Unit...
Book review: the Bedtime Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson
Subtitled An Avian Miscellany, this work is a treasure trove of anecdotes, musings, ideas, folk stories and cultural insights about birds and the history...
It’s official: birds are literally dinosaurs. Here’s how we know
Drop any preconceptions of dinosaurs, which are likely reptile-centric and warped by Spielberg; the real dinosaurs are outside your window. Yes, birds are dinosaurs....
Christmas in Hammana 2021 launched to support local artists
SPNL has participated in “Christmas in Hammana 2021”, which took place between the 17th and 19th of December.The opening of the Christmas market took...
The impact of intergenerational mentoring on leadership perspectives The story of...
When Blandine Melis and Jamal Hamzeh, two environmental leaders working in Cape Verde and Lebanon respectively, joined the MAVA Leaders for Nature Academy in 2020, they couldn’t have imagined the impact it would have on their personal and professional...
